From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Common code 00/12] Sl[auo]b: Common functionality V2
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:15:02 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBA4DE6.1010709@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205210850380.27592@router.home>
On 05/21/2012 05:51 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
>> While we're at it, can one of my patches for consistent name string handling
>> among caches be applied?
>>
>> Once you guys reach a decision about what is the best behavior: strdup'ing it
>> in all caches, or not strduping it for the slub, I can provide an updated
>> patch that also updates the slob accordingly.
>
> strduping is the safest approach. If slabs keep a pointer to string data
> around then slabs also need their private copy.
You told me that once, but David seemed to disagree.
David, do you agree with this ?
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 16:19 [RFC] Common code 00/12] Sl[auo]b: Common functionality V2 Christoph Lameter
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 01/12] [slob] define page struct fields used in mm_types.h Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 8:41 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 14:22 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-22 17:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 14:28 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 02/12] [slab]: Use page struct fields instead of casting Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 14:28 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 03/12] Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 9:21 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 14:39 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 04/12] slabs: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 9:24 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 13:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 15:08 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-22 15:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 17:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 05/12] slabs: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 9:26 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 15:34 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 06/12] slabs: Use a common mutex definition Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 15:44 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 07/12] slabs: Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 16:19 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-22 17:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 09/12] slabs: Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 9:34 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 18:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 19:19 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 20:06 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 15:39 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-23 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 10/12] sl[aub]: Use the name "kmem_cache" for the slab cache with the kmem_cache structure Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 9:35 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-23 16:17 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 11/12] Move freeing of kmem_cache structure to common code Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 16:17 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-18 16:19 ` [RFC] Common code 12/12] [slauob]: Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 16:42 ` JoonSoo Kim
[not found] ` <20120518161931.570041085@linux.com>
2012-05-21 9:27 ` [RFC] Common code 08/12] slabs: list addition move to slab_common Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 16:22 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-05-21 9:38 ` [RFC] Common code 00/12] Sl[auo]b: Common functionality V2 Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 13:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-21 14:15 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-06-11 2:25 ` Alex Shi
2012-06-29 3:17 ` Alex Shi
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