From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <463B815E.8010806@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:54:22 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize References: <20070504102651.923946304@chello.nl> <20070504103157.215424767@chello.nl> <1178301545.24217.56.camel@twins> <1178302904.2767.6.camel@lappy> <1178303538.2767.9.camel@lappy> <463B7F63.8070508@cs.helsinki.fi> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , Thomas Graf , David Miller , James Bottomley , Mike Christie , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> Again, slab has no way of actually estimating how many pages you need for a >> given number of objects. So we end up calculating some upper bound which >> doesn't belong in mm/slab.c. I am perfectly okay with: > > It can give a worst case number and that is what he wants. Sure. But he can calculate that elsewhere instead of bringing it in mm/slab.c where it's no use for anyone else... -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org