linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] failslab for SLUB

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Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:44:26 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] failslab for SLUB

Hi Hannes,

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:43 +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >  static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> gfp_t flags)
> >  {
> >  	void *objp;
> > @@ -3381,7 +3316,7 @@ __cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid,
> >  	unsigned long save_flags;
> >  	void *ptr;
> >  
> > -	if (should_failslab(cachep, flags))
> > +	if (slab_should_failslab(cachep, flags))
> 
> should_failslab()?

No, look at what slab_should_failslab() does. We need to exclude
cache_cache in SLAB but not in SLUB.

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