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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705021312410.1978@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 13:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> To facilitate this do NOT introduce CONFIG_SLAB until we decide
> that SLUB are default. In this way we can make CONFIG_SLUB be default
> and people will not continue with CONFIG_SLAB because they had it in their
> config already.

We already have CONFIG_SLAB. If you use your existing .config then
you will stay with SLAB.

> The point is make sure that LSUB becomes default for people that does
> an make oldconfig (explicit or implicit).

Hmmmm... We can think about that when we actually want to make SLUB the 
default.

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