Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: sl[uo]b: fix misleading comments

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote:

> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On x86, SLUB creates and handles <=8192-byte allocations internally.
> It passes larger ones up to the allocator.  Saying "up to order 2" is,
> at best, ambiguous.  Is that order-1?  Or (order-2 bytes)?  Make
> it more clear.
> 
> SLOB commits a similar sin.  It *handles* page-size requests, but the
> comment says that it passes up "all page size and larger requests".
> 
> SLOB also swaps around the order of the very-similarly-named
> KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH and KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX #defines.  Make it
> consistent with the order of the other two allocators.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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