From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH] slab: consolidate allocation paths From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <1139128872.11782.5.camel@localhost> References: <1139060024.8707.5.camel@localhost> <1139070369.21489.3.camel@localhost> <1139070779.21489.5.camel@localhost> <20060204180026.b68e9476.pj@sgi.com> <1139128872.11782.5.camel@localhost> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:18:29 +0200 Message-Id: <1139131109.11782.8.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul Jackson Cc: christoph@lameter.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, manfred@colorfullife.com List-ID: On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 10:41 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Ah, sorry about that, I forgot to verify the NUMA case. The problem is > that to kmalloc_node() is calling cache_alloc() now which is forced > inline. I am wondering, would it be ok to make __cache_alloc() > non-inline for NUMA? The relevant numbers are: [snip] Btw, we can also change kmalloc_node() to use kmem_cache_alloc_node() again but for that, we have a minor correctness issue, namely, the __builtin_return_address(0) won't work for kmalloc_node(). Hmm. Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org