Re: [RFC] SL[AUO]B common code 3/9] Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache

[Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 May 2012, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Why not make a "struct kmem_cache_common" structure and use that? You can
> embed it in "struct kmem_cache" just fine.

Tried that but I ended up with having to qualify all common variables.

I.e.

struct kmem_cache {
	struct kmem_cache_common {
		int a,b
	} common
} kmem_cache;


requires

	kmemcache->common.a

instead of

	kmemcache->a

That in turn requires significant changes to all allocators.

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