Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751427AbWA0HJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:09:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751432AbWA0HJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:09:43 -0500 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:47317 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427AbWA0HJm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:09:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:09:32 +0200 (EET) From: Pekka J Enberg To: Matthew Dobson cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants In-Reply-To: <43D94FC1.4050708@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138218020.2092.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <84144f020601252341k62c0c6fck57f3baa290f4430@mail.gmail.com> <43D94FC1.4050708@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 13 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/