Re: [PATCH] vmalloc : optimization, cleanup, bugfixes

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Eric Dumazet wrote:
[PATCH] vmalloc : optimization, cleanup, bugfixes

This patch does three things

1) reorder 'struct vm_struct' to speedup lookups on CPUS with small cache lines. The fields 'next,addr,size' should be now in the same cache line, to speedup lookups.

2) One minor cleanup in __get_vm_area_node()

3) Bugfixes in vmalloc_user() and vmalloc_32_user()
NULL returns from __vmalloc() and __find_vm_area() were not tested.

Hmm, so they weren't. As far as testing the return of __find_vm_area,
you can just turn that into a BUG_ON(!area), because at that point,
we've established that the vmalloc succeeded.

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