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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Any reason to use put_page in slub.c?
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:09:49 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5017E72D.2060303@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207310906350.32295@router.home>

On 07/31/2012 06:09 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> That is understood. Typically these object where page sized though and
> various assumptions (pretty dangerous ones as you are finding out) are
> made regarding object reuse. The fallback of SLUB for higher order allocs
> to the page allocator avoids these problems for higher order pages.
omg...

I am curious how slab handles this, since it doesn't seem to refcount in
the same way slub does?

Now, I am still left with the original problem:
__free_pages() here would be a superior solution, and the right thing to
do. Should we just convert it - and then fix whoever we find to be
abusing it (it doesn't mean anything, but I am running it on my systems
since then - 0 problems), or should I just create a hacky
put_accounted_page()?

I really, really dislike the later.

Anyone else would care to comment on this ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27 12:19 Glauber Costa
2012-07-27 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-30  7:53   ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-30 19:23     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31  8:25       ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-31 14:09         ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 14:09           ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-07-31 14:17             ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 14:18               ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-31 14:31                 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 14:52                   ` James Bottomley
2012-08-01 12:42                     ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-01 18:10                       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-02  7:55                         ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-02  8:07                         ` James Bottomley

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