Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] SLUB: make ksize() more strict for page allocatorpass-through

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 14:58:36 EST


Christoph Lameter wrote:
Why is it too big? Without your additions it is converting kmallocs inline to get_free_pages(). That results in a simple function call with two constant parameters.

Well, it's a PITA because of #include dependencies in any case. Is moving it out-of-line a problem?

Christoph Lameter wrote:
The patch touches the page struct uselessly. I think the PageSlab marking is useful for debugging but not for a production kernel.

Hmm, where? page_address() already references ->virtual. I suppose CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is a no no as well then so do we want to add a CONFIG_KSIZE_DEBUG config option...? (Btw, I removed the BUG_ON() from kfree() as spotted by Vegard Nossum.)

Pekka
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