linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to slab_max

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Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to
 slab_max_order

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, David Rientjes wrote:

> slab_break_gfp_order is more appropriately named slab_max_order since it
> enforces the maximum order size of slabs as long as a single object will
> still fit.
> 
> Also rename BREAK_GFP_ORDER_{LO,HI} accordingly.
> 

Ping on these two patches?  I don't see them in slab/next.

> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -481,9 +481,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(slab_buffer_size);
>  /*
>   * Do not go above this order unless 0 objects fit into the slab.
>   */
> -#define	BREAK_GFP_ORDER_HI	1
> -#define	BREAK_GFP_ORDER_LO	0
> -static int slab_break_gfp_order = BREAK_GFP_ORDER_LO;
> +#define	SLAB_MAX_ORDER_HI	1
> +#define	SLAB_MAX_ORDER_LO	0
> +static int slab_max_order = SLAB_MAX_ORDER_LO;
>  
>  /*
>   * Functions for storing/retrieving the cachep and or slab from the page
> @@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
>  	 * page orders on machines with more than 32MB of memory.
>  	 */
>  	if (totalram_pages > (32 << 20) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> -		slab_break_gfp_order = BREAK_GFP_ORDER_HI;
> +		slab_max_order = SLAB_MAX_ORDER_HI;
>  
>  	/* Bootstrap is tricky, because several objects are allocated
>  	 * from caches that do not exist yet:
> @@ -2112,7 +2112,7 @@ static size_t calculate_slab_order(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>  		 * Large number of objects is good, but very large slabs are
>  		 * currently bad for the gfp()s.
>  		 */
> -		if (gfporder >= slab_break_gfp_order)
> +		if (gfporder >= slab_max_order)
>  			break;
>  
>  		/*
> 
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