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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: revert direct page allocator pass through
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:53 +1100
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On Friday 23 January 2009 19:43:20 Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>
> This patch reverts page allocator pass-through logic from the SLUB
> allocator.
>
> Commit aadb4bc4a1f9108c1d0fbd121827c936c2ed4217 ("SLUB: direct pass through
> of page size or higher kmalloc requests")

Hmm, it lists quite a number of advantages that I guess are being
reverted too? What was the test case(s) that prompted this commit
in the first place? Better ensure it doesn't slow down...