linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] UNION

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702212239270.30485@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:42:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	unionfs@...esystems.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I think we can merge krealloc without unionfs. I'll whoop up a new patch as
> per Christoph's suggestions. I think at least XFS already has its own realloc
> and there might be some other open-coded users. It's not _changing_ the slab
> as much as adding new functionality that makes sense fron a general point of
> view.

I really like the krealloc idea. Could we useful elsewhere to extend 
objects and it is similar to the realloc() available in glibc.

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