netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: skbuff: remove special handling for SLOB

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Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 11:10:54 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: skbuff: remove special handling for SLOB

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Commit c9929f0e344a ("mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB") removes CONFIG_SLOB.
> Now, we can also remove special handling for socket buffers with the SLOB
> allocator. The code with HAVE_SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE=1 is now the default
> behavior for all allocators.
> 
> Remove an unnecessary distinction between SLOB and SLAB/SLUB allocator
> after the SLOB allocator is gone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/core/skbuff.c | 17 -----------------
>  1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>