Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:53:22AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > If the embedded guys are OK with an additional pointer in the slab data
> > structure, I have no objection to this approach.  I am assuming that we
> > would use the usual ops-style structure full of pointers to functions
> > in order to avoid a pair of extra pointers.
> 
> This would also allow us to get rid of the ctor pointer in
> kmem_cache_create(). We can put it into the same structure.

Sounds good -- that would result in no increase in size.  Could even
add a dtor if people want it.  ;-)  (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

						Thanx, Paul
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