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| author | Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> | 2016-05-20 02:10:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 04:12:14 +0200 |
| commit | 76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507 (patch) | |
| tree | 325db0807b58b03e598513a5243d350d7bb9b958 /Makefile | |
| parent | mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node (diff) | |
| download | linux-76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507.tar.xz linux-76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507.zip | |
mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts
This is a preparation step to implement lockless allocation path when
there is no free objects in kmem_cache.
What we'd like to do here is to refill cpu cache without holding a node
lock. To accomplish this purpose, refill should be done after new slab
allocation but before attaching the slab to the management list. So,
this patch separates cache_grow() to two parts, allocation and attaching
to the list in order to add some code inbetween them in the following
patch.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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