linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slob kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <20081210200657.GB2215@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:06:57 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in slob
	kmem_cache_create

[Matt Mackall - Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:57:50PM -0600]
... 
| I think that's fine. Notice that this is not the allocation of an
| object, but the allocation of a cache descriptor. We save the flags
| inside the descriptor so that when the user calls kmem_cache_alloc, we
| can pass them along to slob_alloc, where GFP_ZERO can take effect.
| 
| So, if we're comfortable with the idea that we can only create caches in
| 'normal' contexts, then I think the patch is fine.
| 
| -- 
| Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
| 

Yes Matt, somehow missed that.

		- Cyrill -
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