On 10/19/2012 11:44 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> struct page already have this information. If we start chaining >> caches, this information will always be more trustworthy than >> whatever is passed into the function > > Yes it does but the information is not standardized between the allocators > yet. Coul you unify that? Come out with a struct page overlay that is as > much the same as possible. Then kfree can also be unified because the > lookup is always the same. That way you can move kfree into slab_common > and avoid modifying multiple allocators. > Ok, this is yet another changelog mistake from mine. This function is not about kfree, but kmem_cache_free. But part of your comment still applies, the page lookup can still be common. I will take a look at that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
