linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:37:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...r.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	corey.d.gough@...el.com, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Erik Andersen <andersen@...epoet.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> You're delusional.


Git log says otherwise:

 git log --pretty=short mm/slob.c

Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    Slab allocators: Drop support for destructors
Author: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
    slob: implement RCU freeing
Author: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
    slob: fix page order calculation on not 4KB page
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
Author: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
    slob: handle SLAB_PANIC flag
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
    slab: introduce krealloc
Author: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@...e.fr>
    [PATCH] MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.h
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    [PATCH] More slab.h cleanups
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    [PATCH] Cleanup slab headers / API to allow easy addition of new slab allocators
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
    [PATCH] Make kmem_cache_destroy() return void
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    [PATCH] ZVC: Support NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE / NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
    [PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator
Author: JÃ¶rn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
    Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Author: John Hawkes <hawkes@....com>
    [PATCH] mm/slob.c: for_each_possible_cpu(), not NR_CPUS
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
    [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
    [PATCH] SLOB=y && SMP=y fix
Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
    [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator