Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754416AbZLAQsM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:48:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754403AbZLAQsL (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:48:11 -0500 Received: from nlpi129.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.143]:35913 "EHLO nlpi129.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754398AbZLAQsG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:48:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:47:44 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: David Rientjes cc: Matt Mackall , Pekka Enberg , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator In-Reply-To: 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 19 On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, David Rientjes wrote: > Right, but the user is still left with a decision of which slab allocator > to compile into their kernel, each with distinct advantages and > disadvantages that get exploited for the wide range of workloads that it > runs. If slob could be merged into another allocator, it would be simple > to remove the distinction of it being seperate altogether, the differences > would depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED instead. No embedded folks that I know are using SLOB. CONFIG_EMBEDDED still would require a selection of allocators. I have no direct knowledge of anyone using SLOB (despite traveling widely this year) aside from what Matt tells me. -- 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/