Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 May 2007 18:53:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote:
> SLOB seems to look at the descriptor in the previous blob to figure > out how big the being-freed blob is. That's actually kind of clever > :-)
We were assuming that the objects are actually allocated. How does it figure out the previous blobs boundaries without metadata?
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