Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue May 22 2012 - 18:31:50 EST


On Tue, 22 May 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > I think that's precisely David's point: that we might want to destroy them
> > eventually.
>
> Cannot imagine why.
>

We can't predict how slab will be extended in the future and this affects
anything created before g_cpucache_cpu <= EARLY. This would introduce the
first problem with destroying such caches and is unnecessary if a
workaround exists.
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