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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705021137210.1027@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, haveblue@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it:

Thanks!

> I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch:
> I'd better give that a try.

Great. But I certainly do not mind people use SLAB. I do not think that 
one approach should be there for all. Choice is the way to have multiple 
allocators compete. One reason that SLAB is so crusty is because it was 
the only solution for so long.


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