linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 3/3] use SLAB_ALIGN

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:18:37 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 3/3] use SLAB_ALIGN_SMP

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:12:15PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's what I thought too, when I got confused by these new
> > SLUB semantics that you made up. Actually if you look at SLAB,
> > it has very precise and rational semantics. SLUB should respect that.
> 
> These crappy semantics are SLAB semantics that SLUB must support.

They are only crappy in SLUB. In SLAB they are actually useful.
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