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Message-Id: <1178295355.24217.49.camel@twins>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:15:55 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:09 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > On 5/4/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> > > Expost buffer_size in order to allow fair estimates on the actual space
> > > used/needed.
>
> We already have ksize?
ksize gives the internal size, whereas these give the external size.
I need to know how much space I need to reserve, hence I need the
external size; whereas normally you want to know how much space you have
available, which is what ksize gives.
Didn't we have this discussion last time?
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