Re: [RFC, PATCH] SLAB : [NUMA] keep nodeid in struct page instead of struct slab

["Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On 3/21/07, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> In order to avoid a cache miss in kmem_cache_free() on NUMA and reduce hot path
> length, we could exploit the following common facts.

It would be nice if you could cc me for slab patches.

On 3/21/07, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> -static inline void page_set_cache(struct page *page, struct kmem_cache *cache)
> +static inline void page_set_cache_slab_nodeid(struct page *page,
> +       struct kmem_cache *cache, struct slab *slab, int nodeid)
>  {
> +       page->lru.prev = (struct list_head *)slab;
> +#ifdef KEEP_NODEID_IN_PAGE
> +       page->lru.next = (struct list_head *)((long)cache + nodeid);
> +#else
>         page->lru.next = (struct list_head *)cache;
> +#endif
> +#ifdef KEEP_NODEID_IN_SLAB
> +       slab->nodeid = nodeid;
> +#endif

Can we please have a slab_get_nid() and slab_set_nid() instead which
reduces the need for #ifdefs?