From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:18:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120524001831.GQ25351@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBCF951.3040105@parallels.com>
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 06:50:57PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 06:48 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 May 2012, James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> >>>>So, why not simply patch slab to rely on the string lifetime being the
> >>>>cache lifetime (or beyond) and therefore not having it take a copy?
> >
> >Well thats they way it was for a long time. There must be some reason that
> >someone started to add this copying business.... Pekka?
> >
> The question is less why we added, but rather why we're keeping.
>
> Of course reasoning about why it was added helps (so let's try to
> determine that), but so far the only reasonably strong argument in
> favor of keeping it was robustness.
I'm pretty sure it was added because there are slab names
constructed by snprintf on a stack buffer, so the name doesn't exist
beyond the slab initialisation function call...
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 15:18 Glauber Costa
2012-05-21 15:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 3:22 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-22 7:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 9:45 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 13:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 15:19 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-22 17:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-22 22:31 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-23 11:46 ` James Bottomley
2012-05-23 12:08 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-23 12:24 ` James Bottomley
2012-05-23 14:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 14:50 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-24 0:18 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-05-24 12:06 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-23 15:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-23 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-23 15:15 ` Glauber Costa
2012-05-23 13:48 ` Christoph Lameter
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