Re: [PATCH] SLUB: revert direct page allocator pass through

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jan 23 2009 - 10:42:31 EST


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Christoph Lameter
> > <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It seems that we currently need the slab allocators to compensate for the
> > > performance problems in the page allocator for these higher order allocs.
> > > I'd rather have the page allocator fixed but things are as they are.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > So, is that an ACK or a NAK for the patch?-)

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:25 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Doesnt that break down Nick's order-0 dominates-the-world scheme break
> down? One of the reasons for doing this was to get the page allocator
> performance issues exposed and addressed.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. I'm putting this in linux-next now. Lets see what breaks.

Pekka

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