On 05/24/2012 04:18 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:

quoted

Of course reasoning about why it was added helps (so let's try to

quoted

 determine that), but so far the only reasonably strong argument in
 favor of keeping it was robustness.

I'm pretty sure it was added because there are slab names
constructed by snprintf on a stack buffer, so the name doesn't exist
beyond the slab initialisation function call...

Cheers,

Dave.

If that was the reason, we'd be seeing slab failing miserably where slub 
succeeds, since slab keeps no copy.


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