From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@gentwo.org>,
Yan Zhen <yanzhen@vivo.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
42.hyeyoo@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensource.kernel@vivo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm:slab:use kmem_cache_free() to free
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:49:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e29f5bb2-6daf-4542-9a56-b2e2d9e2d202@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bb9fcbc-310a-ad36-9e96-61dc80681f12@gentwo.org>
On 8/22/24 18:59, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Yan Zhen wrote:
>
>> The kmem_cache_alloc() is typically used to free memory allocated through
>> the kernel memory cache (slab allocator).
>
> Well yes but since we removed SLOB we can use kfree() on any slab object.
>
>> Using kmem_cache_free() for deallocation may be more reasonable.
>
>
> It is more symmetric and looks better.
Right, added to slab/for-next, thanks.
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-27 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-22 2:27 [PATCH v1] mm:slab:use kmem_cache_free() to free Yan Zhen
2024-08-22 16:59 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2024-08-27 14:49 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2024-08-27 14:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-08-27 15:54 ` [PATCH] mm: slab: use " Markus Elfring
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