From: Matthew Dobson Create a simple wrapper function for the common case of creating a slab-based mempool. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/mempool.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/mempool.h~mempool-add-mempool_create_slab_pool include/linux/mempool.h --- devel/include/linux/mempool.h~mempool-add-mempool_create_slab_pool 2006-02-10 02:14:57.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/include/linux/mempool.h 2006-02-10 02:14:59.000000000 -0800 @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ #include +struct kmem_cache; + typedef void * (mempool_alloc_t)(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data); typedef void (mempool_free_t)(void *element, void *pool_data); @@ -37,6 +39,12 @@ extern void mempool_free(void *element, */ void *mempool_alloc_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data); void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data); +static inline mempool_t * +mempool_create_slab_pool(int min_nr, struct kmem_cache *kc) +{ + return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_alloc_slab, mempool_free_slab, + (void *) kc); +} /* * 2 mempool_alloc_t's and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc/kzalloc and kfree _