Re: slab: cache alloc cleanups

Andrew Morton writes:

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

Heh, the bulk of it is basically splitting the current __cache_alloc into separate UMA and NUMA paths via __do_cache_alloc so we don't have to play with NUMA_BUILD tricks. I also moved __cache_alloc_node in the same CONFIG_NUMA block as __cache_alloc while I was at it. Pekka -

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