[PATCH] mm: optimize numa policy handling in slab allocator

Move the interrupt check from slab_node into ___cache_alloc and adds an
"unlikely()" to avoid pipeline stalls on some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 71430d440822..73790188b0eb 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -982,9 +982,6 @@ static unsigned interleave_nodes(struct mempolicy *policy)
  */
 unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy)
 {
-        if (in_interrupt())
-                return numa_node_id();
-
         switch (policy->policy) {
         case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
                 return interleave_nodes(policy);