linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

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Message-ID: <0000013a1d7c65d7-e63e5171-d5ea-4464-a5ea-c345d6804c07-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2012 18:00:22 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> [ v2: leave the mask out decision up to the allocators ]

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

I would prefer that this mask be named appropriately and be defined in all
sl*_def.h files for all allocators.

Name could be SLAB_AVAILABLE_FLAGS or some name that makes more
sense than CACHE_CREATE_MASK.

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