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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:35:02 +0100
From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> From 4d526db4781aaab86cb79ff8135bb0e2bc560598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:27:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: use page allocator for PAGE_SIZE requests
>
> It seems strange that we should use the page allocator for
> requests of (PAGE_SIZE + 1) bytes or more, and not for requests
> that are exactly PAGE_SIZE.

Actually, there are some more places that need to be fixed. I think
I'll send an updated patch that fixes all of them.


Vegard

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