linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: replace horrible hack with ksize()

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803060840540.13012@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:41:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, joe@...ches.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: replace horrible hack with ksize()

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> Then ksize(p) will return the currently allocated size which is 32 bytes 
> when page size is 4 KB, and not 8 bytes. So it should be equivalent of 
> what the current code does.

True for SLAB. SLUB will actually allocate only 8 bytes.
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