Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760106AbZAWD77 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:59:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754709AbZAWD7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:59:51 -0500 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:2598 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754643AbZAWD7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:59:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator From: Joe Perches To: Nick Piggin Cc: Pekka Enberg , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Lin Ming , "Zhang, Yanmin" , Christoph Lameter In-Reply-To: <20090123033520.GC20098@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090121143008.GV24891@wotan.suse.de> <1232560770.8025.7.camel@localhost> <20090123033520.GC20098@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:00:47 -0800 Message-Id: <1232683247.15489.103.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2-1.2mdv2009.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 25 On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 04:35 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > That's a fair point. Hugh dislikes it too, I see ;) What to do... I > had been toying with the idea that if slqb (or slub) becomes "the" > allocator, then we could rename it all back to slAb after replacing > the existing slab? maybe SLIB (slab-improved) or SLAB_NG or NSLAB or SLABX Who says it has to be 4 letters? > Or I could make it a 128 bit allocator and call it SLZB, which would > definitely make it "the final" allocator ;) That leads to the phone book game. SLZZB - and a crystal bridge now spans the fissure. Hmm, wrong game. cheers, j -- 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/