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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:03:00 -0800
From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
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To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] mempool - Update kzalloc mempool users
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1/25/06, Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>plain text document attachment (critical_mempools)
>>Fixup existing mempool users to use the new mempool API, part 3.
>>
>>This mempool users which are basically just wrappers around kzalloc().  To do
>>this we create a new function, kzalloc_node() and change all the old mempool
>>allocators which were calling kzalloc() to now call kzalloc_node().
> 
> 
> The slab bits look good to me. You might have some rediffing to do
> because -mm has quite a bit of slab patches in it.
> 
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
>                                Pekka

Good to hear.  I expect there to be plenty of differences.  Some pieces of
this are ready to be pushed now, but most of it is still very much in
planning/design stage.  My hopes (which I probably should have made more
clear in the introductory email) are just to get feedback on the general
approach to the problem that I'm pursuing.

Thanks!

-Matt
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