Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize

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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 <[email protected]> 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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