Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:46:45 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Clean up __cache_alloc and __cache_alloc_node functions a bit.  We no 
> longer need to do NUMA_BUILD tricks and the UMA allocation path is much
> simpler. No functional changes in this patch.
> 
> Note: saves few kernel text bytes on x86 NUMA build due to using gotos in
> __cache_alloc_node() and moving __GFP_THISNODE check in to fallback_alloc().

Does this actually clean things up, or does it randomly move things around
while carefully retaining existing obscurity?  Not sure..


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