Hi Boaz,

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
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>  Please forgive my ignorance, but what is then the difference between kmem_cache_alloc()
>  and kmalloc?

Constructors, user-defined alignment, and tighter object packing.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
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>  would you not agree that sometimes we want to override that sharing of SLOBs?

To be honest, I really don't quite understand your use-case. But as
far as I can tell, it hasn't never been explicitly guaranteed and most
certainly has not been true since the merging of SLOB and more
recently SLUB.

                Pekka
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