Re: [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants

Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-27T07:09:32Z

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> The overhead of passing along a NULL pointer should not be too onerous.

It is, the extra parameter passing will be propagated all over the kernel
where kmalloc() is called. Increasing kernel text for no good reason is
not acceptable.

Pekka