Re: [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> I decided that using a whole page allocator would be the easiest way to
> cover the most common uses of slab/kmalloc, but your idea is very
> interesting.  My immediate concern would be trying to determine, at kfree()
> time, what was allocated by the slab allocator and what was allocated by
> the critical pool.  I will give this approach more thought, as the idea of
> completely separating the critical pool and slab allocator is attractive.

I think you can use PageSlab for that.

			Pekka
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