Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patchadded to -mm tree

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 21:53:39 EST


On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote:

> SLOB seems to look at the descriptor in the previous blob to figure
> out how big the being-freed blob is. That's actually kind of clever
> :-)

We were assuming that the objects are actually allocated. How does it
figure out the previous blobs boundaries without metadata?

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