Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

[Pekka Enberg]

Hello,

[ Found this in my @cs.helsinki.fi inbox, grmbl. ]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The first prototype, SLAM XP1, will be posted in October.  I'd simply like
> to avoid reverting this patch down the road and having all of us
> reconsider the topic again when clear alternatives exist that, in my
> opinion, make the code cleaner.

David, I'm sure you know we don't work speculatively against
out-of-tree code that may or may not be include in the future...

That said, I don't like Glauber's patch because it leaves CREATE_MASK
in mm/slab.c. And I'm not totally convinced a generic SLAB_INTERNAL is
going to cut it either. Hmm.

                        Pekka
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