Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935153AbZKYV7Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935134AbZKYV7Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:25 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:11921 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935122AbZKYV7Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:24 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=EJmZNuQPvDXKb508LeVn7nmP6+tjkM6ojJG0UVBdjUTDE+K8Q4R6ist1AlkJ0hBJo u20kColF8YqBwgrK0wxxA== Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Matt Mackall cc: Pekka Enberg , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator In-Reply-To: <1259103315.17871.895.camel@calx> Message-ID: References: <84144f020911192249l6c7fa495t1a05294c8f5b6ac8@mail.gmail.com> <1258729748.4104.223.camel@laptop> <1259002800.5630.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <1259003425.17871.328.camel@calx> <4B0ADEF5.9040001@cs.helsinki.fi> <1259080406.4531.1645.camel@laptop> <20091124170032.GC6831@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1259082756.17871.607.camel@calx> <1259086459.4531.1752.camel@laptop> <1259090615.17871.696.camel@calx> <84144f020911241307u14cd2cf0h614827137e42378e@mail.gmail.com> <1259103315.17871.895.camel@calx> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 16 On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matt Mackall wrote: > I'm afraid I have only anecdotal reports from SLOB users, and embedded > folks are notorious for lack of feedback, but I only need a few people > to tell me they're shipping 100k units/mo to be confident that SLOB is > in use in millions of devices. > It's much more popular than I had expected; do you think it would be possible to merge slob's core into another allocator or will it require seperation forever? -- 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/