Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.1-rc0

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:08 +0300, Pekka Enberg a écrit :
> > Here's batch of slab/slub/slob changes accumulated over the past few months.
> > The biggest changes are alignment unification from Christoph Lameter and SLUB
> > debugging improvements from Ben Greear. Also notable is SLAB 'struct
> > kmem_cache' shrinkage from Eric Dumazet that helps large SMP systems.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Please note that the SLUB lockless slowpath patches will be sent in a separate
> > pull request.
> >
> >                          Pekka
>
> Hi Pekka
>
> Could we also merge in 3.1 following "simple enough" patch ?
>
> Thanks
>
> [PATCH] slab: remove one NR_CPUS dependency
>
> Reduce high order allocations in do_tune_cpucache() for some setups.
> (NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry for the delay. I applied the patch and will send it to Linus within 
few days.

			Pekka