Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:00:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] binalloc: best-fit allocation with binning
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Shoot me now. 

> As suggested by Linus,

I'm happy to hear that the thing worked, but I'm not sure how happy I 
should be about yet _another_ allocator. Will it ever end?

But seriously, it looks simple and small enough, so in that sense there 
doesn't seem to be a problem. But I really don't look forward to another 
one of these, at least not without somebody deciding that yes, we can 
prune one of the old ones as never being better. Hmm?

		Linus
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