Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 04 May 2007 18:15:55 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:09 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > On 5/4/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > > > Expost buffer_size in order to allow fair estimates on the actual space > > > used/needed. > > We already have ksize?
ksize gives the internal size, whereas these give the external size.
I need to know how much space I need to reserve, hence I need the external size; whereas normally you want to know how much space you have available, which is what ksize gives.
Didn't we have this discussion last time?
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