Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:42:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I think we can merge krealloc without unionfs. I'll whoop up a new patch as
> per Christoph's suggestions. I think at least XFS already has its own realloc
> and there might be some other open-coded users. It's not _changing_ the slab
> as much as adding new functionality that makes sense fron a general point of
> view.

I really like the krealloc idea. Could we useful elsewhere to extend 
objects and it is similar to the realloc() available in glibc.

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