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SubjectRe: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc

In article <20020327201917.A23810@phoenix.infradead.org> Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I'd really go for k(mem_)zalloc, but a kmem_cache_alloc leads people toward
> writing bad code. The purpose of the slab allocator is to allow caching
> readily constructed objects, a _zalloc destroys them on alloc.

I thought that the life span of an object is between
kmem_cache_alloc and kmem_cache_free. If you are expecting caching
beyond this, you may not get correct data. kmem_cache allocator
is supposed to quickly allocate fixed size structures avoiding
the need for frequent splitting and coalescing in the allocator.

Am I missing something here ?

Thanks
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Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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