From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:34:05 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008171433160.14588@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008171153490.21770@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > > I didn't know if that was a debugging patch for me or if you wanted to
> > > push that as part of your series, I'm not sure if you actually need to
> > > move it to kmem_cache_init() now that slub_state is protected by
> > > slub_lock. I'm not sure if we want to allocate DMA objects between
> > > kmem_cache_init() and kmem_cache_init_late().
> >
> > Drivers may allocate dma buffers during initialization.
> >
>
> Ok, I moved the DMA cache creation from kmem_cache_init_late() to
> kmem_cache_init(). Note: the kasprintf() will need to use GFP_NOWAIT and
> not GFP_KERNEL now.
ok. I have revised the patch since there is also a problem with the
indirection on kmalloc_caches.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-04 2:45 [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3) Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 01/23] percpu: make @dyn_size always mean min dyn_size in first chunk init functions Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 02/23] percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 03/23] slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 3:34 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-04 16:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-05 7:40 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 04/23] SLUB: Constants need UL Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 05/23] Subjec Slub: Force no inlining of debug functions Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 06/23] slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init() Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 07/23] slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 08/23] slub: remove dynamic dma slab allocation Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 09/23] slub: Remove static kmem_cache_cpu array for boot Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 10/23] slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot V2 Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 11/23] slub: Dynamically size kmalloc cache allocations Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 12/23] slub: Extract hooks for memory checkers from hotpaths Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 13/23] slub: Move gfpflag masking out of the hotpath Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 14/23] slub: Add SLAB style per cpu queueing Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 15/23] slub: Allow resizing of per cpu queues Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 16/23] slub: Get rid of useless function count_free() Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 17/23] slub: Remove MAX_OBJS limitation Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 18/23] slub: Drop allocator announcement Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 19/23] slub: Object based NUMA policies Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 20/23] slub: Shared cache to exploit cross cpu caching abilities Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 5:52 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 17:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 18:42 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 18:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 19:02 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-18 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 21/23] slub: Support Alien Caches Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 22/23] slub: Cached object expiration Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 2:45 ` [S+Q3 23/23] vmscan: Tie slub object expiration into page reclaim Christoph Lameter
2010-08-04 4:39 ` [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3) David Rientjes
2010-08-04 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-05 8:38 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-05 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 4:56 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 7:55 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 13:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 17:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 18:02 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 18:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-17 18:54 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-17 19:34 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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