linux-kernel - Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

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Message-ID: <84144f020804170342x7d692e83x2b50ebbccfc4c40b@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:42:38 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"Nick Piggin" <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  > We (still!) have not made the decision whether to proceed with slab or
>  > slub.  How hard would it be to port kmemcheck into slab?
>
>  i think slab is clearly out, unless some catastrophic regression is
>  found. But Nick's SLQB might replace SLUB ;-)

Hey, we all have our favorite replacements for kmalloc():

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/patches/binalloc/2.6.25-rc8/kmalloc-binning

But it seems unrealistic to expect any of them to replace SLUB or SLAB
in the near future.

                             Pekka
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