Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbVLZSeu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:34:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932085AbVLZSeu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:34:50 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.203]:1121 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbVLZSeu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:34:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TZiUZILsxNiu5BEDDdbZGX4UQ6MXdVO+V8XJeh0284m142VBtp9dEdHpE8e/vI8W2hVQPzVtehO35siIpv5kd/DB4lmtSYwsW6fo1WjNrbZCImlnp8n7JbqskCuliLM1xVmxwCDOt1r0Hn4qhSdifiu4dzrSaTC08GsJ1UVsDdg= Message-ID: <84144f020512261034q356b4484sa6e6528e339e67f5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:34:46 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg To: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLAB - have index_of bug at compile time. Cc: Manfred Spraul , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43B01BD7.3040209@colorfullife.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 18 Hi Steven, On 12/26/05, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Now, maybe NUMA and vmalloc might be a good reason to start a new > allocation system along side of slab? A better approach would probably be to introduce a vmem layer similar to what Solaris has to solve I/O memory and vmalloc issue. What NUMA issue are you referring to btw? I don't see any problem with the current design (in fact, I stole it for my magazine allocator too). It's just that the current implementation is bit hard to understand. Pekka - 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/