Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24
From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 16:01:27 EST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
That stupid clearing in new_slab() is totally and utterly irrelevant (in
addition to the fact that it's hard to spot).
The point was never new_slab(). So why do you even mention it?
Because I didn't spot that we're calling kmalloc_large() in the fallback
path too. I was referring to the page allocator pass-through
kmalloc_large() call that happens before we hit __slab_alloc. My bad, sorry.
Pekka
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