Re: Question on SLAB allocator.

[Andi Kleen]

Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Slab supports constructors.  Reusing state from freeing at next
allocation of the same type to optimize use of the CPU caches. The inode
cache among others use this.

-Andi

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