Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: lustre: lnet: Allocate MEs and small MDs in own kmem_caches

From	James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: lustre: lnet: Allocate MEs and small MDs in own kmem_caches
Date	2016-06-15 05:10 +0200
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> > This may also possibly help to save cycles due to high usage and
> > contention when using a generic kmem_cache (when they stay separate
> > from others, thanks for the precision!).
> 
> Have you measured this?
> 
> This isn't applicable for 4.7-rc at this time, _unless_ it fixes a bug,
> which is why I pushed back on this.  If you want your own cache for
> these variables, fine, I don't care, but that makes it a 4.8-rc1 patch
> instead.
> 
> hope that helps explain things better,

As a side question when is the window to push patches of this class?
Is it when 4.7-rc7 is merged to staging?

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Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: lustre: lnet: Allocate MEs and small MDs  in own kmem_caches James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 05:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: lustre: lnet: Allocate MEs and small MDs in  own kmem_caches Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-06-18 05:40 +0200

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