linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.15-rc1

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Message-Id: <1397381296-13961-1-git-send-email-penberg@iki.fi>
Date:	Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:28:16 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@....fi>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.15-rc1

Hi Linus,

Please pull the latest SLAB tree from:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git slab/next

The biggest change is byte-sized freelist indices which reduces slab freelist
memory usage:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/64

			Pekka

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The following changes since commit 38dbfb59d1175ef458d006556061adeaa8751b72:

  Linus 3.14-rc1 (2014-02-02 16:42:13 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git slab/next

for you to fetch changes up to 34bf6ef94a835a8f1d8abd3e7d38c6c08d205867:

  mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru (2014-04-11 10:06:06 +0300)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Hansen (1):
      mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru

Jianyu Zhan (1):
      mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming

Joe Perches (1):
      slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient

Joonsoo Kim (7):
      slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
      slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object
      slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab
      slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab
      slab: make more slab management structure off the slab
      slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL
      slab: fix wrongly used macro

 include/linux/mm_types.h |   3 +-
 include/linux/slab.h     |  11 +++
 mm/slab.c                | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 mm/slob.c                |  10 +--
 mm/slub.c                |   5 +-
 5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
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