linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] Dynamic kmem cache allocator for pid namespaces

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Message-ID: <20070714012225.GA29647@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:22:25 -0700
From:	sukadev@...ibm.com
To:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Dynamic kmem cache allocator for pid namespaces

Pavel Emelianov [xemul@...nvz.org] wrote:
| Add kmem_cache to pid_namespace to allocate pids from.
| 
| Since booth implementations expand the struct pid to carry
| more numerical values each namespace should have separate
| cache to store pids of different sizes.
| 
| Each kmem cache is names "pid_<NR>", where <NR> is the number
| of numerical ids on the pid. Different namespaces with same
| level of nesting will have same caches.
| 
| This patch has two FIXMEs that are to be fixed after we reach
| the consensus about the struct pid itself.
| 
| The first one is that the namespace to free the pid from in
| free_pid() must be taken from pid. Now the init_pid_ns is
| used.
| 
| The second FIXME is about the cache allocation. When we do know
| how long the object will be then we'll have to calculate this
| size in create_pid_cachep. Right now the sizeof(struct pid)
| value is used.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
| Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
| Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>
| 
| ---
| 
| diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
| index ddb9a4c..27cfad3 100644
| --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
| +++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
| @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct pid_namespace {
|  	struct pidmap pidmap[PIDMAP_ENTRIES];
|  	int last_pid;
|  	struct task_struct *child_reaper;
| +	struct kmem_cache_t *pid_cachep;

Shouldn't this be 'struct kmem_cache *' ?
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