linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/2] common entry point for kmem_cache

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:59:16 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] common entry point for kmem_cache_free

The goal of this patchset is to provide a single entry point for
kmem_cache_free. Other functions, such as the allocation itself, and kmalloc
could easily follow.

The main problem here, is that if we keep the allocator-specific functions
in their .c file, we lose the ability to inline their fast paths. Being this
such a critical path, we would like to keep doing so.

During the last discussion around this (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/22/639),
JoonSoo Kim suggested that we could achieve this by just including the
allocator-specific .c files in slab_common.c, a suggestion I considered but
quickly disregarding fearing a quite ugly end result.

Turns out it doesn't look so bad. So please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Glauber Costa (2):
  kmem_cache: include allocators code directly into slab_common
  slab: move kmem_cache_free to common code

 mm/Makefile      |  3 ---
 mm/slab.c        | 23 ++---------------------
 mm/slab_common.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/slob.c        | 11 ++++-------
 mm/slub.c        |  5 +----
 5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

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1.7.11.7

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