On Fri, 27 May 2016, Alexander Potapenko wrote: > It's reasonable to rely on the fact that for every page allocated for a > kmem_cache the |slab_cache| field points to that cache. Without that it's > hard to figure out which cache does an allocated object belong to. The flags are set only in the head page of a coumpound page which is used by SLAB. No need to do this. This would just mean unnecessarily dirtying struct page cachelines on allocation. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>