From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:56:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOJsxLGSyBx=VkQ1vjAwYMNgfKR3inWRpkTWTYkWnhzHsVPD_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5085370F.80204@parallels.com>
> On 10/22/2012 04:04 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
>> calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
>> using put_page() instead.
>>
>> It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
>> by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.
>>
>> This is based on:
>> commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4
>> Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote:
> Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Applied, thanks Ezequiel!
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-22 12:04 Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-22 12:07 ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 6:56 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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