From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Netfilter Developers <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
dhowells@redhat.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, kernel@wantstofly.org,
mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check()
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:09:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909150945.GB6749@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0909091052380.28070@V090114053VZO-1>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:53:22AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > If the embedded guys are OK with an additional pointer in the slab data
> > structure, I have no objection to this approach. I am assuming that we
> > would use the usual ops-style structure full of pointers to functions
> > in order to avoid a pair of extra pointers.
>
> This would also allow us to get rid of the ctor pointer in
> kmem_cache_create(). We can put it into the same structure.
Sounds good -- that would result in no increase in size. Could even
add a dtor if people want it. ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-09 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 12:42 System freeze on reboot - general protection fault Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-11 14:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-11 14:52 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-11 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-11 15:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-11 15:48 ` Robin Holt
2009-08-11 21:10 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-12 22:16 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-12 22:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-13 17:09 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-14 9:33 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-08-16 9:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-08-17 14:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-09-02 21:45 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-09-02 22:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-02 22:31 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-09-03 1:04 ` [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() and SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 6:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 6:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 7:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 7:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 7:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 17:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 14:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 14:18 ` [PATCH] slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 19:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 19:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 19:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() and SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 18:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 15:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 22:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 22:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-04 15:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 22:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-04 15:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-04 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-04 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-04 15:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 17:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 17:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 19:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 22:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-03 23:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-04 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-04 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-08 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-08 22:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-08 22:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-08 22:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-09 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-09 14:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-09 14:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-09 15:09 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-09-03 19:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-03 15:00 ` [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() and SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 13:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 13:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 13:28 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-09-03 13:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 13:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-03 14:35 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-09-03 14:35 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-09-03 18:17 ` System freeze on reboot - general protection fault Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-03 18:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
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