Re: [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 01:42:44 EST


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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