From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx105.postini.com [74.125.245.105]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96C0C6B00E9 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 11:17:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FBCFF28.8080703@parallels.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:15:52 +0400 From: Glauber Costa MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string References: <1337613539-29108-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <4FBBAE95.6080608@parallels.com> <1337773595.3013.15.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <4FBCD328.6060406@parallels.com> <1337775878.3013.16.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <4FBCFBE0.2080803@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: James Bottomley , David Rientjes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg On 05/23/2012 07:17 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> So if I understand it correctly, this is mostly because the name string >> > outlives the cache in the slub case, because of merging ? > Well this means we really only need the copying in slub which we already > have. > > The problem is that you want to make this behavior uniform over all > allocators so that you do not have to allocate the string on your own. > > Could you wait (and not rely on copying) until I am through with the > extraction project for common code for the allocators? At that point we > can resolve this issue consistently for all allocators. > Yes, I can. Let's just defer this for now. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org