From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: A solution for more GFP_xx flags?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:05:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqplaiok.wl%peterc@quokka.chubb.wattle.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609111957510.7923@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> writes:
Christoph> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> This seems like a decent approach to make a nice general
>> interface. I guess existing APIs can be easily implemented by
>> filling in the structure. If you took this approach I don't think
>> there should be any objections.
>>
>> A minor point: would we prefer a struct argument to the allocator,
>> or more function arguments? It is an API that we need to get
>> right...
Christoph> If you look at my allocator API (see the latest slab
Christoph> patchset), one could add all the allocator methods into the
Christoph> struct in order to objectivize the page alloator.
Dunno about you, but the thought of passing structs around on the
stack gives me the heebie jeebies, especially if they're going to be
more than a word or so big.
Either pass by reference, or separate out the args, so it's explicit
how much info's being copied around.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-12 2:28 Christoph Lameter
2006-09-12 2:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-12 3:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-12 3:05 ` Peter Chubb [this message]
2006-09-12 3:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-12 3:11 ` Peter Chubb
2006-09-12 5:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-12 6:16 ` Paul Jackson
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