[GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.15-rc1

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun Apr 13 2014 - 05:29:19 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull the latest SLAB tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git slab/next

The biggest change is byte-sized freelist indices which reduces slab freelist
memory usage:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/64

Pekka

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The following changes since commit 38dbfb59d1175ef458d006556061adeaa8751b72:

Linus 3.14-rc1 (2014-02-02 16:42:13 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git slab/next

for you to fetch changes up to 34bf6ef94a835a8f1d8abd3e7d38c6c08d205867:

mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru (2014-04-11 10:06:06 +0300)

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Dave Hansen (1):
mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru

Jianyu Zhan (1):
mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming

Joe Perches (1):
slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient

Joonsoo Kim (7):
slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object
slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab
slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab
slab: make more slab management structure off the slab
slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL
slab: fix wrongly used macro

include/linux/mm_types.h | 3 +-
include/linux/slab.h | 11 +++
mm/slab.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
mm/slob.c | 10 +--
mm/slub.c | 5 +-
5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
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