[PATCH] slab: distinguish between object and buffer size
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:05:42 +0000 (03:05 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:53:17 +0000 (08:53 -0800)
commit3dafccf22751429e69b6266636cf3acf45b48075
treec65a0217e117155bbfca2bc4c7ad488a42018cc7
parente965f9630c651fa4249039fd4b80c9392d07a856
[PATCH] slab: distinguish between object and buffer size

An object cache has two different object lengths:

  - the amount of memory available for the user (object size)
  - the amount of memory allocated internally (buffer size)

This patch does some renames to make the code reflect that better.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/slab.c