Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:15:20 +0400 | From | Glauber Costa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] slab: move kmem_cache_free to common code |
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On 10/23/2012 06:12 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> I do agree, but since freeing is ultimately dependent on the allocator >> layout, I don't see a clean way of doing this without dropping tears of >> sorrow around. The calls in slub/slab/slob would have to be somehow >> inlined. Hum... maybe it is possible to do it from >> include/linux/sl*b_def.h... >> >> Let me give it a try and see what I can come up with. > > The best solution would be something that would have a consolidated > kmem_cache_free() in include/linux/slab.h. >
I don't know what exactly do you have in mind, but since the cache layouts are very different, this is quite hard to do without incurring without function calls anyway.
Do take a look at what I sent in response to that, and tell me what do you think.
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