From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 14/14] bufferhead: Revert constructor removal
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241924060.29434@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022143147.03de69ca.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So I see no need for this patch? Shouldn't it be part of a slab-defrag
> patch series?
It could be part of it. However, I think we mistakenly merged the removal
of the constuctor into a cleanup patch. You had a test that showed that
the removal of the constructor led to a small regression. The prior state
makes things easier for slab defrag.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 23:25 [patch 00/14] Misc cleanups / fixes Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 01/14] Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 02/14] Reiser4 portion of zero_user cleanup patch Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 03/14] Move vmalloc_to_page() to mm/vmalloc Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 04/14] vmalloc: add const to void ..tmp_kallsyms1.o.cmd ..tmp_kallsyms2.o.cmd ..tmp_vmlinux1.cmd ..tmp_vmlinux2.cmd .cf .cf1 .cf2 .cf3 .cfnet .config .config.old .gitignore .mailmap .missing-syscalls.d .pc .tmp_System.map .tmp_kallsyms1.S .tmp_kallsyms1.o .tmp_kallsyms2.S .tmp_kallsyms2.o .tmp_versions .tmp_vmlinux1 .tmp_vmlinux2 .version .vmlinux.cmd .vmlinux.o.cmd COPYING CREDITS Documentation Kbuild MAINTAINERS Makefile Module.symvers README REPORTING-BUGS System.map arch b block crypto drivers fs include init ipc kernel lib linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.tar.gz mips mm net patches scripts security sound tar-install test test_out usr vmlinux vmlinux.gz vmlinux.o vmlinux.sym xx parameters Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 05/14] i386: Resolve dependency of asm-i386/pgtable.h on highmem.h Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 06/14] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 07/14] vmalloc: Clean up page array indexing Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 08/14] vunmap: return page array passed on vmap() Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 09/14] SLUB: Move count_partial() Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 10/14] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote_node_defrag_ratio Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 11/14] SLUB: Consolidate add_partial() and add_partial_tail() to one function Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 12/14] VM: Allow get_page_unless_zero on compound pages Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 13/14] dentries: Extract common code to remove dentry from lru Christoph Lameter
2007-10-22 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-25 2:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-25 2:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-25 2:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-25 3:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-25 23:25 ` [patch 14/14] bufferhead: Revert constructor removal Christoph Lameter
2007-10-22 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-25 2:25 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-09-27 20:25 ` [patch 00/14] Misc cleanups / fixes Andrew Morton
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