Re: [PATCH] mm-slab: allocate kmem_cache with __GFP_REPEAT

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:41 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

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[PATCH v2] slab: shrinks sizeof(struct kmem_cache)

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

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This will solve the issue for small nr_cpu_ids but those with 4k cpus will
still have the issue.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <redacted>

Applied, thanks! Do we still want the __GFP_REPEAT patch from Konstantin
though?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

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Those with 4k cpus will be thankful I guess.

OTOH, I'm slightly worried that it might mask a real problem 
with GFP_KERNEL not being aggressive enough. Mel?

I think that's already been demonstrated here, yes. It's just waiting
for another obscure workload to trigger it.

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