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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:41:24 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no, Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, mpm@...enic.com, cl@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/30] mm: memory reserve management Hi Peter, On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Also, you might have noticed, I still need to do everything SLOB. The > last time I rewrote all this code I was still hoping Linux would 'soon' > have a single slab allocator, but evidently we're still going with 3 for > now.. :-/ > > So I guess I can no longer hide behind that and will have to bite the > bullet and write the SLOB bits.. Oh, I don't expect SLOB to go away anytime soon. We are still trying to get rid of SLAB, though, but there are some TPC regressions that we don't have a reproducible test case for so that effort has stalled a bit. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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