Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 10:49:12 EST


On Wed, 23 May 2012, James Bottomley wrote:

> > > So, why not simply patch slab to rely on the string lifetime being the
> > > cache lifetime (or beyond) and therefore not having it take a copy?

Well thats they way it was for a long time. There must be some reason that
someone started to add this copying business.... Pekka?

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