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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, unionfs@filesystems.org,
	bunk@stusta.de, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:21:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DC8DA1.6030100@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702210951580.24344@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well could you check ksize for the old object first and if ksize <= new 
> size then just skip the copy? I think this may allow you 
> to get rid of the ksize callers.

And not reallocate at all, right? I thought about that but then you 
wouldn't be able to use realloc() to make the buffer smaller.

			Pekka


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21  8:06 [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc Pekka J Enberg
2007-02-21  9:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-21  9:33   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21  9:36     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-21 17:51     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 17:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 18:21   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2007-02-21 18:27     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 18:37       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 18:48         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 19:19           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 19:22             ` Christoph Lameter

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