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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:44:52 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] SLAB : NUMA cache_free_alien() very expensive because of virt_to_slab(objp); nodeid = slabp->nodeid;
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> We usually use page_to_nid(). Sure this will determine the node the object 
> resides on. But this may not be the node on which the slab is tracked 
> since there may have been a fallback at alloc time.

How about your slab rewrite?  I assume it would make more sense to fix
such problems in that code instead of the old which is going to be replaced
at some point.

-Andi
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