#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
/*
- * SLUB allocates up to order 2 pages directly and otherwise
- * passes the request to the page allocator.
+ * SLUB directly allocates requests fitting in to an order-1 page
+ * (PAGE_SIZE*2). Larger requests are passed to the page allocator.
*/
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT)
#ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
/*
- * SLOB passes all page size and larger requests to the page allocator.
+ * SLOB passes all requests larger than one page to the page allocator.
* No kmalloc array is necessary since objects of different sizes can
* be allocated from the same page.
*/
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX 30
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH PAGE_SHIFT
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX 30
#ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW 3
#endif
*
* %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep.
*
- * %GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
+ * %__GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
*
* %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA.
* Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a