Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755136Ab0BOKHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:07:19 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:47918 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556Ab0BOKHR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:07:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:07:12 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andi Kleen , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com, rientjes@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/4] SLAB: Handle node-not-up case in fallback_alloc() v2 Message-ID: <20100215100712.GC21783@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20100211953.850854588@firstfloor.org> <20100211205401.002CFB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> <20100215060400.GG5723@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100215060400.GG5723@laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 32 > This is a better way to go anyway because it really is a proper > "fallback" alloc. I think that possibly used to work (ie. kmem_getpages > would be able to pass -1 for the node there) but got broken along the > line. Thanks for the review. I should add there's still one open problem: in some cases the oom killer kicks in on hotadd. Still working on that one. In general hotadd was mighty bitrotted :/ > > Although it's not such a hot path to begin with, care to put a branch > annotation there? pointer == NULL is already default unlikely in gcc /* Pointers are usually not NULL. */ DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_POINTER, "pointer", HITRATE (85), 0) DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_TREE_POINTER, "pointer (on trees)", HITRATE (85), 0) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/