From: Tommy Reynolds <reynolds@redhat.com>
To: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmem_cache_zalloc()
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:28:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020403162810.2c24ba60.reynolds@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017871982.25556.7.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>
Uttered "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>, spoke thus:
> In short, we're using a kmem_cache_zalloc() function in XFS which just
> does kmem_cache_alloc + memset.
>
> 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 you, we can roll this functionality back under fs/xfs to reduce our
> changes in the mainline kernel.
Why not use the constructor function interface to kmem_cache_create that is
_already_ in the kernel API?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-03 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-03 22:13 Eric Sandeen
2002-04-03 22:28 ` Tommy Reynolds [this message]
2002-04-03 22:42 ` Brian Gerst
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