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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:24:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 8/9] slab: implement bulk free in SLAB allocator
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To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> IMHO kmem_cache_alloc_bulk/kfree_bulk looks awkward, especially taking
> into account the fact that we pair kmem_cache_alloc/kmem_cache_free and
> kmalloc/kfree, but never kmem_cache_alloc/kfree.
>
> So I'd vote for kmem_cache_free_bulk taking a kmem_cache as an argument,
> but I'm not a potential user of this API, so please don't count my vote
> :-)

One way to have it less awkward is to keep naming it kmem_cache_free_bulk
but omit the kmem_cache parameter like what I did initially.

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