linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > I would suggest cachep->flags being used solely for the flags passed to
> > kmem_cache_create() and seperating out all "internal flags" based on the
> > individual slab allocator's implementation into a different field.  There
> > should be no problem with moving CFLGS_OFF_SLAB elsewhere, in fact, I just
> > removed a "dflags" field from mm/slab.c's kmem_cache that turned out never
> > to be used.  You could simply reintroduce a new "internal_flags" field and
> > use it at your discretion.
> 
> This means touching another field from critical paths of the allocators.
> It would increase the cache footprint and therefore reduce performance.
> 

To clarify your statement, you're referring to the mm/slab.c allocation of 
new slab pages and when debugging is enabled as "critical paths", correct?  
We would disagree on that point.
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