From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx116.postini.com [74.125.245.116]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2BD16B007D for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:40:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] don't do __ClearPageSlab before freeing slab page. In-Reply-To: <4FE2D7B2.8060204@parallels.com> Message-ID: References: <1340225959-1966-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1340225959-1966-5-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <4FE2D7B2.8060204@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg , Michal Hocko , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Johannes Weiner , Suleiman Souhlal 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org