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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 23:04:35 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/23] SLUB percpu sheaves
On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 10:03:04AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Basically it's for situations where you have an upper bound on the objects
> you might need to allocate in some restricted context where you can't fail
> but also can't reclaim etc. The steps are:
Ok, so you still need a step where you reserve, which can fail and
only after that guarantee you can allocate up to the reservation? I.e.
not a replacement for mempools? Just asking because I recently had
to implement a mempool_alloc_batch to allow grabbing multiple objects
out of a mempool safely for something I'm working on.
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