Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767240AbXEBS5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:57:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767245AbXEBS5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:57:45 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:42021 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767240AbXEBS5o (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:57:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:57:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hugh Dickins , haveblue@ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub Message-Id: <20070502115725.683ac702.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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. > noooo, we don't want competing slab allocators, please. We should get slub working well on all architectures then remove slab completely. Having to maintain both slab.c and slub.c would be awful. - 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/