_refcount
_refcount
Posted Oct 8, 2021 20:02 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Pulling slabs out of struct page by Cyberax
Parent article: Pulling slabs out of struct page
For struct slab, it has to be in the same place as with struct page. As for why its location in struct page, that's probably an outcome of years of history. But is there some special reason why _refcount should be at the beginning?