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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:18:04 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc 03/18] slub: Extract get_freelist from __slab_alloc
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To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, tj@kernel.org, Metathronius Galabant <m.galabant@googlemail.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Adrian Drzewiecki <z@drze.net>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> get_freelist retrieves free objects from the page freelist (put there by remote
> frees) or deactivates a slab page if no more objects are available.
> 

Please also mention that you're now using cmpxchg_double_slab() to deal 
with disabling irqs now when grabbing the freelist.

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> 

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

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