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    SubjectRe: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations
    On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate
    > > arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab
    > > allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths.
    >
    > What's the driver for this? The networking people, I think? If so,
    > some discussion about that would be useful: who is involved, why they
    > have this need, who are the people we need to bug to get it tested,
    > whether this implementation is found adequate, etc.

    Jesper and I gave a talk at LCA about this. LWN has an article on it.



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