Re: [PATCH] mm-slab: allocate kmem_cache with __GFP_REPEAT

Eric Dumazet
2011-07-21T08:44:09Z

Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 A 09:52 -0500, Christoph Lameter a A(C)crit :

> We should be making it a per cpu pointer like slub then. I looked at what
> it would take to do so a couple of month ago but it was quite invasive.
>

I took a look at this too, but using percpu data would consume more
memory, because percpu allocator allocates memory blobs for all possible
cpus, while current code handles online/offline cpu nicely.