Re: [PATCH] make kmem_find_general_cachep static in slab.c

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Why?
> It's intended for users that want to kmalloc always the same amount of 
> memory.
> For example the network layer could call kmem_find_general_cachep once 
> for dev->mtu and then just call kmem_cache_alloc instead of kmalloc. The 
> loop in kmalloc often needs more cpu cycles than the actual alloc.

Because there's no single user, and for constant size arguments kmalloc
already optimizes very well, so I rather doubt people are ever going to
use this one.

Is the basic don't design APIs for a maybe future scheme.
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