Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767175AbXEBSjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:39:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767177AbXEBSjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:39:21 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:32943 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767175AbXEBSjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:39:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Hugh Dickins cc: Andrew Morton , haveblue@ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it: Thanks! > I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch: > I'd better give that a try. Great. But I certainly do not mind people use SLAB. I do not think that one approach should be there for all. Choice is the way to have multiple allocators compete. One reason that SLAB is so crusty is because it was the only solution for so long. - 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/