The patch titled Subject: slab: move up code to get kmem_cache_node in free_block() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was slab-move-up-code-to-get-kmem_cache_node-in-free_block.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Subject: slab: move up code to get kmem_cache_node in free_block() node isn't changed, so we don't need to retreive this structure everytime we move the object. Maybe compiler do this optimization, but making it explicitly is better. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~slab-move-up-code-to-get-kmem_cache_node-in-free_block mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~slab-move-up-code-to-get-kmem_cache_node-in-free_block +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -3398,7 +3398,7 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache int node) { int i; - struct kmem_cache_node *n; + struct kmem_cache_node *n = get_node(cachep, node); for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) { void *objp; @@ -3408,7 +3408,6 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache objp = objpp[i]; page = virt_to_head_page(objp); - n = get_node(cachep, node); list_del(&page->lru); check_spinlock_acquired_node(cachep, node); slab_put_obj(cachep, page, objp, node); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-compactionc-isolate_freepages_block-small-tuneup.patch page-owners-correct-page-order-when-to-free-page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html