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    SubjectRe: lockdep complaints in slab allocator
    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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