2010-11-02 07:49:28

by Sedat Dilek

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Subject: Where is the SLAM (a mutable slab allocator) development happening?

Hi,

while looking through the program of LPC, I have seen a proposal for a
talk called "SLAM: a mutable slab allocator" [1].

As there was no reference given to the code-base, I went searching on
the Wild Wild Web and found a thread called "[UnifiedV4 00/16] The
Unified slab allocator (V4)" posted to LKML.
It looks to me that these patches went to Pekka's slab/for-next GIT-branch [2].
I am not sure if this is "SLAM".

[1] says:
"I have worked as a kernel developer at Google for 3 1/2 years...",
not sure if David Rientjes email-address at Google is still valid,
thus I am sending my request to slab ML and Mainrtainers.

Can someone say where to get more informations on SLAM?
The commits in slab/for-next look also interesting to me, can someone
give an overview what can be expected in 2.6.38?
(I would give linux-next a try).

Thanks in advance for answering my questions.

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/405
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-next


2010-11-02 08:58:01

by Pekka Enberg

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Subject: Re: Where is the SLAM (a mutable slab allocator) development happening?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while looking through the program of LPC, I have seen a proposal for a
> talk called "SLAM: a mutable slab allocator" [1].
>
> As there was no reference given to the code-base, I went searching on
> the Wild Wild Web and found a thread called "[UnifiedV4 00/16] The
> Unified slab allocator (V4)" posted to LKML.
> It looks to me that these patches went to Pekka's slab/for-next GIT-branch [2].
> I am not sure if this is "SLAM".

I've never heard of such a beast. Lets ask David?

Subject: Re: Where is the SLAM (a mutable slab allocator) development happening?

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I've never heard of such a beast. Lets ask David?

There is a proposal at

http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/405

Sadly it was rejected. Wish we knew more about this.