linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] ipvs: Simplify the allocation of ip_vs

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Message-ID: <305989ef-6a26-4a91-bbac-d2433ebb04f4@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:16:34 +0300
From: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...e.de>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>, horms@...ge.net.au, ja@....bg,
 pablo@...filter.org, kadlec@...filter.org, fw@...len.de,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
 netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipvs: Simplify the allocation of ip_vs_conn slab
 caches



On 1/17/24 10:20, Kunwu Chan wrote:
> Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of direct kmem_cache_create
> to simplify the creation of SLAB caches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>

The patch is actually for net-next 

> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> index a743db073887..98d7dbe3d787 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> @@ -1511,9 +1511,7 @@ int __init ip_vs_conn_init(void)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	/* Allocate ip_vs_conn slab cache */
> -	ip_vs_conn_cachep = kmem_cache_create("ip_vs_conn",
> -					      sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn), 0,
> -					      SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
> +	ip_vs_conn_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(ip_vs_conn, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN);
>  	if (!ip_vs_conn_cachep) {
>  		kvfree(ip_vs_conn_tab);
>  		return -ENOMEM;