Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752611Ab3CFQig (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:38:36 -0500 Received: from a194-210.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.194.210]:39500 "EHLO a194-210.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751653Ab3CFQif (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:38:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 16:38:33 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Linus Torvalds cc: Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.9-rc1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0000013d40918dba-4b124e7a-e591-4e75-b568-e1ff9a8d9f03-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.194.210 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 30 On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > It contains more of Christoph's SLAB unification work that reduce the > > differences between different slab allocators. The code has been sitting > > in linux-next without problems. > > > > If you feel this is inappropriate for -rc2, just skip the pull and I'll > > requeue it for 3.10. > > Ugh. It only came a day late, and if you had pushed a bit harder, I'd > have pulled it. But when you put it that way, I really cannot see any > valid reason why it cannot wait, and so I think I'll just expect it > for the next release. > > If you change your mind and realize that it fixes some major bug and > really needs to be pulled after all, holler. Well this stuff was already ready for 3.8 and missed that merge period as well. There are a couple of bug fixes included as well. It is the basis for more common code between allocators. Most of it is renaming things so that fields have a common name which enables more code sharing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/