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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:58:03 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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Subject: [PATCH] Remove special case in kmem_getpages()
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> __get_free_pages() calls alloc_pages, finds the page_address() and
> throws away the struct page *.  Slab then calls virt_to_page to get it
> back again.  Much more efficient for slab to call alloc_pages itself,
> as well as making the NUMA and non-NUMA cases more similarr to each other.

Here is a better patch:

Remove the special case of nodeid == -1.  Instead, use numa_node_id() 
when calling cache_grow().

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>

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diff -urN linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk/mm/slab.c linux/mm/slab.c
--- linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk/mm/slab.c	2005-01-22 01:58:25.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/mm/slab.c	2005-01-24 15:35:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -893,17 +893,11 @@
 	int i;
 
 	flags |= cachep->gfpflags;
-	if (likely(nodeid == -1)) {
-		addr = (void*)__get_free_pages(flags, cachep->gfporder);
-		if (!addr)
-			return NULL;
-		page = virt_to_page(addr);
-	} else {
-		page = alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder);
-		if (!page)
-			return NULL;
-		addr = page_address(page);
-	}
+
+	page = alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+	addr = page_address(page);
 
 	i = (1 << cachep->gfporder);
 	if (cachep->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
@@ -2065,7 +2059,7 @@
 
 	if (unlikely(!ac->avail)) {
 		int x;
-		x = cache_grow(cachep, flags, -1);
+		x = cache_grow(cachep, flags, numa_node_id());
 		
 		// cache_grow can reenable interrupts, then ac could change.
 		ac = ac_data(cachep);

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