On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:54 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > What I'm saying is that the slab allocator slowpath should always > > just check watermarks against the current task. Instead of this > > ->reserve stuff. > > So what you say is to allocate a slab every time we take the slow path, > even when we already have one? BTW, a task that does not have reserve permissions will already attempt to allocate a new slab - this is done to probe the current watermarks. If this succeeds the reserve status is lifted. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
