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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111104370.14730@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:06:59 -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:

> >  git log --pretty=short mm/slob.c
> 
> A dozen trivial cleanups do not make you maintainer. Otherwise we'd
> all be sending our patches to Adrian rather than Linus.

Of course you are the maintainer but you only authored a single patch 
which was the original submission in all the time that SLOB was in the 
tree. I keep having to clean up the allocator that has--according to 
Pekka--more memory requirements than SLUB. There is no point in keeping it 
around anymore it seems.





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