[Devel] Re: [PATCH 4/4] make CFLGS_OFF_SLAB visible for all slabs

Glauber Costa glommer at parallels.com
Mon Jul 2 03:57:01 PDT 2012


On 06/14/2012 07:19 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 
>> Since we're now moving towards a unified slab allocator interface,
>> make CFLGS_OFF_SLAB visible to all allocators, even though SLAB keeps
>> being its only users. Also, make the name consistent with the other
>> flags, that start with SLAB_xx.
> 
> What is the significance of knowledge about internal slab structures (such
> as the CFGLFS_OFF_SLAB) outside of the allocators?
> 
Pekka, please note this comment when you are scanning through the series
(which you seem to be doing now).

This one is better left off for now.




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