From c8522a3a5832b843570a3315674f5a3575958a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joonsoo Kim Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:04:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] slab: introduce alien_cache Currently, we use array_cache for alien_cache. Although they are mostly similar, there is one difference, that is, need for spinlock. We don't need spinlock for array_cache itself, but to use array_cache for alien_cache, array_cache structure should have spinlock. This is needless overhead, so removing it would be better. This patch prepare it by introducing alien_cache and using it. In the following patch, we remove spinlock in array_cache. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed