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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] slab: commonize slab_cache field in struct page
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which
> cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently.
>
> slab uses a field called slab_cache, that lives in the third double
> word. slub, uses a field called "slab", living outside of the
> doublewords area.
>
> Ideally, we could use the same field for this. Since slub heavily makes
> use of the doubleword region, there isn't really much room to move
> slub's slab_cache field around. Since slab does not have such strict
> placement restrictions, we can move it outside the doubleword area.
>
> The naming used by slab, "slab_cache", is less confusing, and it is
> preferred over slub's generic "slab".
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Applied, thanks!


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