Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:28:00 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations |
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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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