The patch titled slob: fix free block merging at head of subpage has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is slob-fix-free-block-merging-at-head-of-subpage.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: slob: fix free block merging at head of subpage From: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> We weren't merging freed blocks at the beginning of the free list. Fixing this showed a 2.5% efficiency improvement in a userspace test harness. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slob.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/slob.c~slob-fix-free-block-merging-at-head-of-subpage mm/slob.c --- a/mm/slob.c~slob-fix-free-block-merging-at-head-of-subpage +++ a/mm/slob.c @@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ static void slob_free(void *block, int s sp->units += units; if (b < sp->free) { + if (b + units == sp->free) { + units += slob_units(sp->free); + sp->free = slob_next(sp->free); + } set_slob(b, units, sp->free); sp->free = b; } else { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx are git-x86.patch maps4-add-proportional-set-size-accounting-in-smaps.patch maps4-rework-task_size-macros.patch maps4-rework-task_size-macros-mips-fix.patch maps4-move-is_swap_pte.patch maps4-introduce-a-generic-page-walker.patch maps4-use-pagewalker-in-clear_refs-and-smaps.patch maps4-simplify-interdependence-of-maps-and-smaps.patch maps4-move-clear_refs-code-to-task_mmuc.patch maps4-regroup-task_mmu-by-interface.patch maps4-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface.patch maps4-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface-fix.patch maps4-add-proc-kpagecount-interface.patch maps4-add-proc-kpagecount-interface-fix.patch maps4-add-proc-kpageflags-interface.patch maps4-add-proc-kpageflags-interface-fix.patch maps4-add-proc-kpageflags-interface-fix-2.patch maps4-add-proc-kpageflags-interface-fix-2-fix.patch maps4-make-page-monitoring-proc-file-optional.patch maps4-make-page-monitoring-proc-file-optional-fix.patch remove-unused-code-from-mm-tiny-shmemc.patch slob-fix-free-block-merging-at-head-of-subpage.patch slob-reduce-external-fragmentation-by-using-three-free-lists.patch slob-correct-kconfig-description.patch drivers-char-randomcwrite_pool-cond_resched-needed.patch random-clean-up-checkpatch-complaints.patch random-consolidate-wakeup-logic.patch random-use-unlocked_ioctl.patch random-reuse-rand_initialize.patch random-improve-variable-naming-clear-extract-buffer.patch random-make-backtracking-attacks-harder.patch random-remove-cacheline-alignment-for-locks.patch random-eliminate-redundant-new_rotate-variable.patch random-remove-some-prefetch-logic.patch random-simplify-add_ptr-logic.patch random-make-mixing-interface-byte-oriented.patch random-simplify-and-rename-credit_entropy_store.patch random-add-async-notification-support-to-dev-random.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