Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 May 2007 19:06:10 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch added to -mm tree | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:57:04 -0700 (PDT)
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > I'm just reading over the code to figure out what to type to you, you > > could read the code too it's not very complicated :-) > > I have read it numerous times and my conclusion is that it uses the > descriptors for that purpose. But Matt claims they are not necessary. So I > am just trying to figure out how one can get to that conclusion.
He is saying the metadata is not necessary for allocated objects. At least that's my take. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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