linux-kernel - Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

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Message-ID: <1259087511.4531.1775.camel@laptop>
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:31:51 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> Well, I suppose I could make my scripts randomly choose the memory
> allocator, but I would rather not.  ;-)

Which is why I hope we'll soon be down to 2, SLOB for tiny systems and
SLQB for the rest of us, having 3 in-tree and 1 pending is pure and
simple insanity.

Preferably SLQB will be small enough to also be able to get rid of SLOB,
but I've not recently seen any data on that particular issue.

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