On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > I would suggest cachep->flags being used solely for the flags passed to > kmem_cache_create() and seperating out all "internal flags" based on the > individual slab allocator's implementation into a different field. There > should be no problem with moving CFLGS_OFF_SLAB elsewhere, in fact, I just > removed a "dflags" field from mm/slab.c's kmem_cache that turned out never > to be used. You could simply reintroduce a new "internal_flags" field and > use it at your discretion. This means touching another field from critical paths of the allocators. It would increase the cache footprint and therefore reduce performance. -- 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>