Re: [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> The overhead of passing along a NULL pointer should not be too onerous.

It is, the extra parameter passing will be propagated all over the kernel 
where kmalloc() is called. Increasing kernel text for no good reason is 
not acceptable.

			Pekka
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