On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 14:00 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > > Christoph, Joonsoo, comments? > > > > Steven's comment is reasonable to me. > > > > If there is no objection from Christoph, > > let's drop a patch in which I implement Christoph's idea. > > Fine with me. > > I do not like passing a reference just because we have to > return an additional counter. Adds a lot of overhead. >
The reference is only passed to acquire_slab() which is a static inline function that's only called by this function. You would think that gcc can optimize that to remove the "lot of overhead". -- Steve -- 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/
