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

Pekka Enberg
2011-07-20T17:42:03Z

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>> [PATCH v2] slab: shrinks sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> This will solve the issue for small nr_cpu_ids but those with 4k cpus will
>>> still have the issue.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>>
>> Applied, thanks! Do we still want the __GFP_REPEAT patch from Konstantin
>> though?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Those with 4k cpus will be thankful I guess.

OTOH, I'm slightly worried that it might mask a real problem
with GFP_KERNEL not being aggressive enough. Mel?

Pekka