netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node

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Message-ID: <4CB5537E.30906@kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:36:46 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net:  allocate skbs on local node

  On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> I think Christoph is saying that we'd remove SLAB and make the unified
>> allocator the new SLAB while keeping SLUB in place.

On 10/13/10 9:31 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
>> Right, so his unification patches would be against slab instead of slub
>> which is a pretty major change from the current state of the patchset,
>> although it might actually be smaller?

No, the way I understood it was:

   rm mm/slab.c
   cp mm/slub.c mm/slab.c
<apply patches on top of slab.c>

             Pekka
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