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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, David Rientjes wrote:

> I would suggest cachep->flags being used solely for the flags passed to
> kmem_cache_create() and seperating out all "internal flags" based on the
> individual slab allocator's implementation into a different field.  There
> should be no problem with moving CFLGS_OFF_SLAB elsewhere, in fact, I just
> removed a "dflags" field from mm/slab.c's kmem_cache that turned out never
> to be used.  You could simply reintroduce a new "internal_flags" field and
> use it at your discretion.

This means touching another field from critical paths of the allocators.
It would increase the cache footprint and therefore reduce performance.

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