Re: [RFT/PATCH] slab: consolidate allocation paths

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun Feb 05 2006 - 07:27:36 EST


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:00 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 1) This patch increased the text size of mm/slab.o by 776
> bytes (ia64 sn2_defconfig gcc 3.3.3), which should be
> justified. My naive expectation would have been that
> such a source code consolidation patch would be text
> size neutral, or close to it.

I have a version of the patch now that reduces text size on NUMA. You
can find it here (it won't apply on top of cpuset though):

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/penberg-2.6/penberg-01-slab/

I'll wait until the cpuset patches have been settled down and repost.

Pekka

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