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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize()
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 07:21:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4834F4DC.3040009@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805212116260.19431@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> That's probably due to the fact that we use PageSlab for all pages with SLUB
>> and for bigblock pages in SLOB with this patch. Christoph, Matt, any
>> suggestions how to fix the PageSlab check in nommu btw?
> 
> I already posted a patch and commented numerous times. What else needs 
> to be said? SLUB only uses PageSlab for kmalloc <=4kb.

(I missed your patch, btw.)

For SLOB, we will never use ksize() as it doesn't set PageSlab. Is that 
not a problem?

		Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-22  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 18:25 [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize() Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-21 23:45 ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  4:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22  4:21       ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-05-22  4:34         ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  4:43           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:55             ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22 15:01             ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-22 16:13               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22 16:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 18:31                 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-23 14:23                 ` Adrian Bunk

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