Re: [PATCH 5/5] Lazily construct slab objects

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/08/2022 17:49, Martin Harvey wrote:
> This will help our resource usage issues as well as Owen's gnttab work. I have 
> checked, and unless he modified more source files, this does not currently 
> conflict with anything Owen has in the works.
>
> Approved, MCH.
Cool, thanks. If I don't hear in any dissenting voice I'll push these 
tomorrow.
  Paul

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> To avoid a large overhead in both time and potemtially space when a new slab is 
> created, only construct objects as they are allocated. When they are freed we 
> keep them constructed to increase the chance of finding an already- constructed 
> object during subsequent allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>