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From: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, cl@linux-foundation.org,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, tytso@mit.edu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: operate cache name memory same to slab and slob
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:38:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikSw2X-n7mC0+Mxosn8w-AAuROkSV7V9G+8ZAVS@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290119265.26343.814.camel@calx>

> - eliminate dynamically-allocated names (mostly useless when we start
> merging slabs!)

not permit dynamically allocated name. I think this one is better, but
as a rule, describe in header is not enough.
It is helpful to print out some warning when someone break the rule.

> kmem_cache_name() is also a highly suspect function in a
> post-merged-slabs kernel. As ext4 is the only user in the kernel, and it
> got it wrong, perhaps it's time to rip it out.

agree, kmem_cache_name() is ugly.

---
Best Regards
    Zeng Zhaoming

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18  3:00 b32542
2010-11-18 21:15 ` Matt Mackall
2010-11-18 21:36   ` David Rientjes
2010-11-18 22:27     ` Matt Mackall
2010-11-19 14:38       ` Zeng Zhaoming [this message]
2010-11-21  0:55       ` David Rientjes
2010-11-18 21:41   ` Pekka Enberg

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