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

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 02:08:00 EST


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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