netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] sunrpc: remove SLAB_MEM

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Message-ID: <20240228150646.GJ292522@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:06:46 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
Cc: chuck.lever@...cle.com, jlayton@...nel.org, neilb@...e.de,
	kolga@...app.com, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sunrpc: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 03:12:34AM +0000, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> 
> The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
> removed as of v6.8-rc1, so it became a dead flag since the commit
> 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And the
> series[1] went on to mark it obsolete to avoid confusion for users.
> Here we can just remove all its users, which has no functional change.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> ---
> v3:
>  - Improve the indentation, per Simon Horman.
> 
> v2:
>  - Update the patch description and include the related link to
>    make it clearer that SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag is now a no-op.

Thanks for the updates.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>

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