Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:22:35 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node |
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: >>> I was going to mention that as an idea, but I thought storing the metadata >>> for certain debugging features might differ from the two allocators so >>> substantially that it would be even more convoluted and difficult to >>> maintain? >> >> We could have some callbacks to store allocator specific metadata?
On 10/14/10 1:41 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > It depends on whether we could share the same base for both slab (unified > allocator) and slub, which you snipped from your reply, that would make > this cleaner.
Argh. Why would we want to introduce something that's effectively a new allocator based on SLUB? If there's something controversial in the current patch series, lets just keep it out of mainline. A "rewrite" is the reason we're in this mess so lets not repeat the same mistake again!
Pekka
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