linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 09:48:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

On Wed, 23 May 2012, James Bottomley wrote:

> > > So, why not simply patch slab to rely on the string lifetime being the
> > > cache lifetime (or beyond) and therefore not having it take a copy?

Well thats they way it was for a long time. There must be some reason that
someone started to add this copying business....  Pekka?

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