Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:18:37 +0100
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 3/3] use SLAB_ALIGN_SMP
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:12:15PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's what I thought too, when I got confused by these new
> > SLUB semantics that you made up. Actually if you look at SLAB,
> > it has very precise and rational semantics. SLUB should respect that.
> 
> These crappy semantics are SLAB semantics that SLUB must support.

They are only crappy in SLUB. In SLAB they are actually useful.
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