Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH] slab: consolidate allocation paths
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: christoph@lameter.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       manfred@colorfullife.com
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Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:29:12 +0200
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On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:00 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
>   1) This patch increased the text size of mm/slab.o by 776
>      bytes (ia64 sn2_defconfig gcc 3.3.3), which should be
>      justified.  My naive expectation would have been that
>      such a source code consolidation patch would be text
>      size neutral, or close to it.

I have a version of the patch now that reduces text size on NUMA. You
can find it here (it won't apply on top of cpuset though):

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/penberg-2.6/penberg-01-slab/

I'll wait until the cpuset patches have been settled down and repost.

			Pekka

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