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Message-Id: <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:34 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	penberg@...nel.org, iamjoonsoo@....com,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:

> Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate
> arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab
> allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths.

What's the driver for this?  The networking people, I think?  If so,
some discussion about that would be useful: who is involved, why they
have this need, who are the people we need to bug to get it tested,
whether this implementation is found adequate, etc.

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