linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] add a kmem

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191225030.7008@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] add a kmem_cache for nsproxy objects

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hmm, I must have missed the macro going in.  Frankly speaking I plain hate
> it.  It's a rather useless obsfucation.

It makes the code easier to review and reduces errors by establishing a 
standard way of defining a slab with minimal effort. You can 
still do the  old style and create the kmem_cache_create parameter 
monsters that span lots of lines.

KMEM_CACHE can do it just by specifying two parameters.

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