Re: [PATCH 3/5] slab.c: remove branch hint

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 12:44:39 EST


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
>> OK, so it's the generic alloc_skb() function that keeps hitting
>> kmem_cache_alloc_node() with "-1". Christoph, are you okay with removing the
>> unlikely() annotation from __cache_alloc_node()?
>
> Yes. Lets look for other cases in the allocators too.
> kmem_cache_alloc_node used to be mainly used for off node allocations but
> the network alloc_skb() case shows that this is changing now.

Tim, can you please re-send the patch to me so I can apply it?
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