Re: [PATCH v2] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Minchan Kim wrote:
> V2
> * change changelog
> * Add some reviewed-by 
> 
> alloc_slab_page always checks nid == -1, so alloc_page_node can't be
> called with -1. 
> It means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary. 
> So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node. 
> It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried.
> 
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index b364844..9984165 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_slab_page(gfp_t flags, int node,
>  	if (node == -1)
>  		return alloc_pages(flags, order);
>  	else
> -		return alloc_pages_node(node, flags, order);
> +		return alloc_pages_exact_node(node, flags, order);
>  }
>  
>  static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)

Applied, thanks!

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