Re: SLUB

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Mark Seger wrote:

> ok, here's a dumb question...  I've been looking at slabinfo and see a routine
> called find_one_alias which returns the alias that gets printed with the -f
> switch.  the only thing is the leading comment says "Find the shortest alias
> of a slab" but it looks like it returns the longest name.  Did you change the
> functionality after your wrote the comment?  that'll teach you for commenting
> your code!  8-)

Yuck.

> I'm also not sure why it would stop the search when it finds an alias that
> started with 'kmall'.  Is there some reason you wouldn't want to use any of
> those names as potential candidates?  Does it really matter how I choose the
> 'first' name?  It's certainly easy enough to pick the longest, I'm just not
> sure about the test for 'kmall'.

Well the kmallocs are generic and just give size information. You want a 
slab name that is more informative than that. 

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