Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Of course you are the maintainer but you only authored a single patch 
> > which was the original submission in all the time that SLOB was in the 
> > tree. I keep having to clean up the allocator that has--according to 
> > Pekka--more memory requirements than SLUB. There is no point in keeping it 
> > around anymore it seems.
> 
> Well, it was a test setup with UML and busybox and didn't have all the 
> SLOB optimizations Nick mentioned, so we shouldn't draw any definite 
> conclusions from it. I couldn't get 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 to compile so I'll try 
> again after Andrew pushes a new release out.

But you did get 2.6.22 to compile it seems.

Here is the fix against 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 again.

---
 mm/slub.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c	2007-07-06 13:28:57.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/mm/slub.c	2007-07-06 13:29:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -1868,7 +1868,9 @@ static void init_kmem_cache_node(struct 
 	atomic_long_set(&n->nr_slabs, 0);
 	spin_lock_init(&n->list_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&n->partial);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&n->full);
+#endif
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -1898,8 +1900,10 @@ static struct kmem_cache_node * __init e
 	page->freelist = get_freepointer(kmalloc_caches, n);
 	page->inuse++;
 	kmalloc_caches->node[node] = n;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
 	init_object(kmalloc_caches, n, 1);
 	init_tracking(kmalloc_caches, n);
+#endif
 	init_kmem_cache_node(n);
 	atomic_long_inc(&n->nr_slabs);
 	add_partial(n, page);
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