linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

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Message-ID: <0000013a0ec088ee-69089a7c-125f-4e80-9881-e66ab96ab59d-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:20:30 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, David Rientjes wrote:

> The first prototype, SLAM XP1, will be posted in October.  I'd simply like
> to avoid reverting this patch down the road and having all of us
> reconsider the topic again when clear alternatives exist that, in my
> opinion, make the code cleaner.

If you want to make changes to the kernel then you need to justify that at
the time when we can consider your patches and the approach taken.




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