linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slob_free:free objects to their own list

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Message-ID: <AANLkTil-sv82zjR7yJr_3nZ0QBO_8Jwj_FO0iFubwe2s@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:07:44 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, hannes@...xchg.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob_free:free objects to their own list

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:52 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> [ Please CC me on SLOB patches. You can use the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl'
>>   script to figure out automatically who to CC on your patches. ]
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com> wrote:
>> > slob has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce
>> > overall external fragmentation and increase repeatability,
>> > free to their own list also.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>
>>
>> The patch looks sane to me. Matt, does it look OK to you as well?
>
> Yep, this should be a marginal improvement.
>
> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

Great! Bob, if you could provide the /proc/meminfo numbers for the
patch description, I'd be more than happy to merge this.

                        Pekka
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