Re: [PATCH] Implement slub fastpath in terms of freebase andfreeoffset

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Christoph Lameter (clameter@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > * Christoph Lameter (clameter@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > 
> > > > In short, the we also use the versioning to check for change of slab.
> 
> Then we do not need the page->end field anymore right? I will try 
> to rediff your patch against current slab-mm and see how we can proceed 
> from there.

I guess you could replace page->end with the (expensive)
page_address(page) + 1 in new_slab.

You would also have to change slab_address() to use
page_address(page). Since this is used by check_valid_pointer, I am not
sure it's a good idea to use this slow operation there.

Or maybe you have a different alternative in mind ?

Mathieu

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