On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:40:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ugh. Code that depends on SLAB initializers is broken. > > The reason for those initializers are traditionally "better cache > behavior" where you don't need to initialize everything at allocation > time, but the whole concept is almost invariably a disaster. This is a > prime example of it.
It'd be good to have that documented somewhere. When I wrote this code (a decade ago), that wasn't my understanding. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
