Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] slab: consolidate allocation paths

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> -static inline void *cache_alloc_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
> +static inline void *__cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags,
> +				  int nodeid)
>  {
> +	if (nodeid != -1 && nodeid != numa_node_id() &&
> +	    cache->nodelists[nodeid])
> +		return __cache_alloc_node(cache, flags, nodeid);
> +
>  	if (unlikely(current->flags & (PF_SPREAD_SLAB | PF_MEMPOLICY))) {
>  		void *objp = alternate_node_alloc(cache, flags);

So we always run through the additional code that you added for each 
allocation on a numa system? The case of nodeid != -1 is a rare case.

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