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

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Message-Id: <20070502121105.de3433d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 12:11:05 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> At some point I dream that SLUB could become the default but I thought 
> this would take at least 6 month or so. If want to force this now then I 
> will certainly have some busy weeks ahead.

s/dream/promise/ ;)

Six months sounds reasonable - I was kind of hoping for less.  Make it
default-to-on in 2.6.23-rc1, see how it goes.
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