Re: v9fs: VFS superblock operations (2.0-rc6)

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 5/25/05, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Is this not the right way to use slabs?  Should I just be using
> > kmalloc/kcalloc? (Is that what you mean by drop the custom allocator?)
> 
> You can create your own slab for known fixed-size objects (your
> directory structure). Look at other filesystems for an example. They
> usually create a cache for their inode_info structs.
> 
> The problem with your approach on packet structure slab is that we
> potentially get slabs with little or no activity. You would have to
> write custom code to tear down unused slabs but now you've got something
> that clearly does not belong in filesystem code. So yes, I think you'd
> be better of using kmalloc()/kcalloc() for your packet structures.
> 

Okay, I figured that since packet buffer sizes were "mostly" fixed by
session configuration then slabs would be the way to go.  But I see
your point - I'll go ahead and convert all the packet buffers to
kmalloc during the upcoming three-day weekend and try to push out a
new release candidate early next week.

           -eric