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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:44:27 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> To: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] slab.c: remove branch hint On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> OK, so it's the generic alloc_skb() function that keeps hitting >> kmem_cache_alloc_node() with "-1". Christoph, are you okay with removing the >> unlikely() annotation from __cache_alloc_node()? > > Yes. Lets look for other cases in the allocators too. > kmem_cache_alloc_node used to be mainly used for off node allocations but > the network alloc_skb() case shows that this is changing now. Tim, can you please re-send the patch to me so I can apply it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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