Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:28:22 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator |
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > I'm afraid I have only anecdotal reports from SLOB users, and embedded > > folks are notorious for lack of feedback, but I only need a few people > > to tell me they're shipping 100k units/mo to be confident that SLOB is > > in use in millions of devices. > > > > It's much more popular than I had expected; do you think it would be > possible to merge slob's core into another allocator or will it require > seperation forever?
It would be possible to create a slab-common.c and isolate common handling of all allocators. SLUB and SLQB share quite a lot of code and SLAB could be cleaned up and made to fit into such a framework.
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