linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] slab: introduce knalloc/kxnalloc

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Message-Id: <32FA0BD0-7C0D-4ED4-B375-4736FC70AC05@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:26:26 -0500
From:	Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] slab: introduce knalloc/kxnalloc

On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Agree, lets not overdesign. kmalloc_array() sounds good to me, fwiw.

I like kmalloc_array.  "knalloc" can be easily confused with kmalloc.

- xi
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