Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 May 2007 11:57:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub |
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On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it: > > Thanks! > > > I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch: > > I'd better give that a try. > > Great. But I certainly do not mind people use SLAB. I do not think that > one approach should be there for all. Choice is the way to have multiple > allocators compete. One reason that SLAB is so crusty is because it was > the only solution for so long. >
noooo, we don't want competing slab allocators, please. We should get slub working well on all architectures then remove slab completely. Having to maintain both slab.c and slub.c would be awful.
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