linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705021346170.16517@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 13:54:53 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Given the current state and the current rate of development I'd expect slub
> to have reached the level of completion which you're describing around -rc2
> or -rc3.  I think we'd be pretty safe making that assumption.

Its developer does show signs of being active!

> 
> This is a bit unusual but there is of course some self-interest here: the
> patch dependencies are getting awful and having this hanging around
> out-of-tree will make 2.6.23 development harder for everyone.

That is a very strong argument: a somewhat worrisome argument,
but a very strong one.  Maintaining your sanity is important.

> 
> So on balance, given that we _do_ expect slub to have a future, I'm
> inclined to crash ahead with it.  The worst that can happen will be a later
> rm mm/slub.c which would be pretty simple to do.

Okay.  And there's been no chorus to echo my concern.

But if Linus' tree is to be better than a warehouse to avoid
awkward merges, I still think we want it to default to on for
all the architectures, and for most if not all -rcs.

> 
> otoh I could do some frantic patch mangling and make it easier to carry
> slub out-of-tree, but do we gain much from that?

No, keep away from that.

Hugh
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