Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

[Nick Piggin]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:10:52PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 08:46 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:46:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Adds code to hot code path.
> > > 
> > > A single mask which should be mostly in the noise...
> > 
> > Cacheline load. Yes it will be in the noise. Like all other slowdowns
> > that get merged ;)
> 
> Yes, agreed. Did you see the patch I suggested to move all of this
> outside of fastpaths for production configs?

Yes I did see it go by. I'm always in favour of cutting
even a few cycles and definitely a cacheline from mm fastpaths.

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