From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: "Elijah Wright" <git@elijahs.space>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Lorenzo Stoakes" <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
"Uladzislau Rezki" <urezki@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: slab: add basic slab module
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:54:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH5fLgiRFMyXkcx-CngRQOdYuJMkoTdXTOjGsdTYizvApArrmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD1SGLU4180C.361W5XLH76XNC@kernel.org>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> wrote:
> (3) Implement a macro to generate a custom KmemCache Allocator trait
> implementation for every KmemCache instance with a static lifetime.
>
> This makes KmemCache technically equivalent to the other allocators, such
> as Kmalloc, etc. but obviously has the downside that the KmemCache might
> live much longer than required.
>
> Technically, most KmemCache instances live for the whole module lifetime,
> so it might be fine though.
>
> (This is what I think Alice proposed.)
Yes, this is what I proposed. Most kmemcaches live for the duration of
the module, so it's no issue if they are global.
Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-25 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20250924193643.4001-1-git@elijahs.space>
2025-09-25 2:17 ` John Hubbard
2025-09-25 9:54 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-25 17:20 ` Elijah
2025-09-25 17:43 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-25 18:02 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-09-25 18:08 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-25 18:11 ` Boqun Feng
2025-09-25 18:05 ` Elijah
2025-09-25 18:15 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-25 18:17 ` Danilo Krummrich
[not found] ` <74b3ef24-a307-4d3c-891a-8c5283448b20@elijahs.space>
2025-09-25 18:52 ` Elijah
2025-09-25 17:54 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2025-09-26 15:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-09-26 15:33 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-26 15:55 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-26 16:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-09-26 16:58 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-26 17:11 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-09-26 19:01 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-28 14:47 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-09-29 7:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-09-29 14:11 ` Elijah
2025-09-29 20:32 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-01 4:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Elijah Wright
2025-11-06 7:53 ` Alice Ryhl
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