Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:31:43 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for-v3.7 2/2] slub: optimize kmalloc* inlining for GFP_DMA |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> kmalloc() and kmalloc_node() of the SLUB isn't inlined when @flags = __GFP_DMA. > This patch optimize this case, > so when @flags = __GFP_DMA, it will be inlined into generic code.
__GFP_DMA is a rarely used flag for kmalloc allocators and so far it was not considered that it is worth to directly support it in the inlining code.
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