From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:48:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215164824.C21238@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030215120324.GG29983@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:03:24AM -0800
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:03:24AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:40:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Use SLAB_KERNEL and SLAB_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC
> >> when passing args to slab allocation functions.
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:49:31AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Why? I'd prefer to completly get rid of the SLAB_ flags instead.
> > (stupid slowaris compat..)
>
> IMHO different API, different flags. The inverse is not that difficult
> to produce, though.
I don't think this make much sense - kmalloc is a a different interface to
the same slab code and uses GFP_ flags, and __alloc_pages uses it aswell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-15 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-15 11:40 clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 12:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-02-15 12:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 12:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 13:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 13:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 15:58 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-02-16 1:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
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