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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] don't do __ClearPageSlab before freeing slab page.
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:40:44 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207031339470.14703@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE2D7B2.8060204@parallels.com>

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> Well, if the requirement is that we must handle this from the page allocator,
> how else should I know if I must call the corresponding free functions ?

Is there such a requirement? I believe I was talking about a wrapper that
accounts for page allocator requests.

> Also note that other bits are tested inside the page allocator as well, such
> as MLock.

Yea so we could do this but doing so requires agreement with the people
involved in page allocator development.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20 20:59 [PATCH 0/4] cache-specific changes for memcg (preparation) Glauber Costa
2012-06-20 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] slab: rename gfpflags to allocflags Glauber Costa
2012-06-21  7:53   ` David Rientjes
2012-06-20 20:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] Wipe out CFLGS_OFF_SLAB from flags during initial slab creation Glauber Costa
2012-06-21  7:59   ` David Rientjes
2012-06-20 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] slab: move FULL state transition to an initcall Glauber Costa
2012-06-21  8:01   ` David Rientjes
2012-07-02 10:57     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-06-20 20:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] don't do __ClearPageSlab before freeing slab page Glauber Costa
2012-06-21  8:04   ` David Rientjes
2012-06-21  8:13     ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-21 11:04       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-21 11:14         ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-21 20:24         ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-03 18:42           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 18:40       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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