On 10/23/2012 06:12 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> I do agree, but since freeing is ultimately dependent on the allocator >> layout, I don't see a clean way of doing this without dropping tears of >> sorrow around. The calls in slub/slab/slob would have to be somehow >> inlined. Hum... maybe it is possible to do it from >> include/linux/sl*b_def.h... >> >> Let me give it a try and see what I can come up with. > > The best solution would be something that would have a consolidated > kmem_cache_free() in include/linux/slab.h. >
I don't know what exactly do you have in mind, but since the cache layouts are very different, this is quite hard to do without incurring without function calls anyway. Do take a look at what I sent in response to that, and tell me what do you think. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/