linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:21:21 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu, unionfs@...esystems.org, bunk@...sta.de,
	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well could you check ksize for the old object first and if ksize <= new 
> size then just skip the copy? I think this may allow you 
> to get rid of the ksize callers.

And not reallocate at all, right? I thought about that but then you 
wouldn't be able to use realloc() to make the buffer smaller.

			Pekka

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