On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:40:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ugh. Code that depends on SLAB initializers is broken. > > The reason for those initializers are traditionally "better cache > behavior" where you don't need to initialize everything at allocation > time, but the whole concept is almost invariably a disaster. This is a > prime example of it. It'd be good to have that documented somewhere. When I wrote this code (a decade ago), that wasn't my understanding. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
