linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: reverse iteration on find

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410311014570.14859@gentwo.org>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:15:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@...tec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: reverse iteration on find_mergeable()

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> To prevent this situation, this patch reverses iteration order in
> find_mergeable() to find frequently used kmem_caches. This change
> helps to merge kmem_cache to frequently used kmem_caches, such as
> kmalloc kmem_caches.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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