linux-kernel - Re: Slab infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing V2

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2015 13:27:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...uxfoundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	iamjoonsoo@....com
Subject: Re: Slab infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing V2

On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:

> hm, OK.  The per-allocator wrappers could be made static inline in .h
> if that makes sense.

The allocators will add code to the "per-allocator wrappers". Inlining
that would be bad. Basicalkly the "wrapper" is the skeleon to which
optimizations can be added while keeping the call to the generic
implementaiton if the allocator has to punt for some reason.

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