Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767256AbXEBTBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:01:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767255AbXEBTBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:01:23 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:49442 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767256AbXEBTBW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:01:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:01:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Hugh Dickins , haveblue@ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: <20070502115725.683ac702.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070502115725.683ac702.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: 780 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Owww... You throw my roadmap out of the window and may create too high expectations of SLUB. I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been dealing with the trio SLAB, SLOB and SLUB for awhile now. Its okay and it will be much easier once the cleanups are in. - 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/