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

[Glauber Costa]

On 05/23/2012 07:17 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > So if I understand it correctly, this is mostly because the name string
> > >  outlives the cache in the slub case, because of merging ?
> Well this means we really only need the copying in slub which we already
> have.
>
> The problem is that you want to make this behavior uniform over all
> allocators so that you do not have to allocate the string on your own.
>
> Could you wait (and not rely on copying) until I am through with the
> extraction project for common code for the allocators? At that point we
> can resolve this issue consistently for all allocators.

Yes, I can.
Let's just defer this for now.

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