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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Handling of GFP_WAIT in the slub and slab allocators
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:18:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013f2eaa90dc-0a3a9858-994c-46dd-83b5-891c05b473f4-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxaTiNXV_RitbBKxCwV_rV44d1cLhfEbLs3ngtEGQUnZ2zk_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Nicolas Palix wrote:

> I notice that in the SLAB allocator, local_irq_save and
> local_irq_restore are called in slab_alloc_node and slab_alloc without
> checking the GFP_WAIT bit of the flags parameter.

SLAB does the same as SLUB. Have a look at mm/slab.c:cache_grow()

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-10 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-10 14:09 Nicolas Palix
2013-06-10 15:18 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-06-10 21:27   ` Nicolas Palix
2013-06-10 23:39     ` Christoph Lameter

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