From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:09:32 +0200 (EET) From: Pekka J Enberg Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants In-Reply-To: <43D94FC1.4050708@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138218020.2092.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <84144f020601252341k62c0c6fck57f3baa290f4430@mail.gmail.com> <43D94FC1.4050708@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Dobson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote: > The overhead of passing along a NULL pointer should not be too onerous. It is, the extra parameter passing will be propagated all over the kernel where kmalloc() is called. Increasing kernel text for no good reason is not acceptable. Pekka -- 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