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Re: [PATCH] (repost) kmem_cache_zalloc

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (repost) kmem_cache_zalloc
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:13:33 +0100
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1019682472.15455.33.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from sandeen@xxxxxxx on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:07:52PM -0500
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:07:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We'd like to incorporate this into the kernel proper, and several others
> chimed in that it would be useful, so here's the patch.  If it's a no-go
> with Linus, we can roll this functionality back under fs/xfs to reduce
> our changes in the mainline kernel.

What about getting rid of it completly instead?

There are only two callers, one is in the pagebuf code and would benefit
from letting slab cache initialized objects and the other in the emulation
of IRIX's kmen_zone_zalloc..

        Christoph


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