Re: [PATCH v2] change alloc function in alloc_slab_page

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Apr 14 2010 - 13:50:14 EST


Minchan Kim wrote:
V2
* change changelog
* Add some reviewed-by

alloc_slab_page always checks nid == -1, so alloc_page_node can't be
called with -1. It means node's validity check in alloc_pages_node is unnecessary. So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node. It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index b364844..9984165 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_slab_page(gfp_t flags, int node,
if (node == -1)
return alloc_pages(flags, order);
else
- return alloc_pages_node(node, flags, order);
+ return alloc_pages_exact_node(node, flags, order);
}
static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)

Applied, thanks!
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