From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [i386] Use page allocator to allocate threadinfo structure
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:30:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405083021.GR2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704041734270.22851@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:40:31PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Replace the calls to kmalloc with calls into the page allocator.
> An alternate solution may be to create a custom slab cache where the
> alignment is set to PAGE_SIZE. That would allow slub debugging to be
> applied to the threadinfo structure.
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
This was originally made a slab allocation as a preparatory cleanup
for things that were never merged, and are never likely to be. One
might as well revert it, though it does make stack space usage
slightly more difficult to account for.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-05 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-05 0:40 [i386] Use page allocator to allocate threadinfo structure Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05 8:30 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-04-05 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
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