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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906121006540.15809@gentwo.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:07:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> The problem here is that it's not enough that we make GFP_RECLAIM_MASK a
> variable. There are various _debugging checks_ that happen much earlier
> than that. We need to mask out those too which adds overhead to
> kmalloc() fastpath, for example.
True. The GFP_RECLAIM_MASK only addresses the passing of gfp flags from a
derived allocator to the page allocator. It will deal only with the issue
of GFP_WAIT handling.
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