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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705040919560.21436@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:23:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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, 4 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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?
I was cced on that as far as I can tell.
The name objsize suggests the size of the object not the slab size.
If you want this then maybe call it kmem_cache_slab_size. SLUB
distinguishes between obj_size which is the size of the struct that is
used and slab_size which is the size of the object after alignment, adding
debug information etc etc. See also slabinfo.c for a way to calculate
theses sizes from user space.
If we really drop SLAB then we wont need this. SLUBs data structures are
not opaque.
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