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smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=HV+JRSbH; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="HV+JRSbH" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 743721F00893; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:54:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1781103288; bh=XzvATamoarWbKL+9WgzetuIll6aemx7kmaC8tNAoMZY=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=HV+JRSbHVx4wJyaho5Cscn9BT1B6SP6eYEFRpshwrzIEc2MveqOT8QmWOFB59HGHy MfvkBTqBmg7vZCEqwILgKDZVLc24+M5P8T15Ja9h7IdJXTA+N/xbHMm4p5G3ML4Ibp DGk0zAvzpIP1LYL02fp+hEC3P9n7WQw+tUryHsT9UhWKMJKYG7yD54XRpbin+bseRM gqcRvJG7wqsx+k8lgVMgILWlE3VKE1t6Uu+mPRadUOcsibB/WMgxq6C8Z38wd3SVmv x661c3QeoxOEym8STSd65eT3MBinyC65dYIPBjsnx4Ecfg7fQdMUaxAsVmt/3YDG4N khpWh+t6eVaWg== Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:54:42 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: cgroups@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] mm/slab: introduce alloc_flags and slab_alloc_context Content-Language: en-US To: Alexei Starovoitov , Harry Yoo Cc: Hao Li , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Suren Baghdasaryan , Alexei Starovoitov , Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Shakeel Butt , Alexander Potapenko , Marco Elver , Dmitry Vyukov , kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org References: <20260609-slab_alloc_flags-v1-0-2bf4a4b9b526@kernel.org> From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" Autocrypt: addr=vbabka@kernel.org; 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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/9/26 20:40, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Tue Jun 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM PDT, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote: >> This series is based on slab/for-next. If all goes well, it would >> hopefully go to slab/for-next soon after the 7.2 merge window, so any >> other work can be based on it to avoid conflicts, as it touches a lot >> parts of slab. >> >> Git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=b4/slab_alloc_flags > > Overall looks great to me. > I would ship all patches except the last one for this merge window, > since I don't see anything controversial or dangerous in there. Hmm that's ambitious :) > Especially since it touches slab so much. My slab-arena changes > would need to adopt it and I don't want to delay the whole thing by two merge windows. > Harry's changes would need to rebased as well. It wouldn't be a problem if they went through the slab tree as well, and just be applied on top of this series already in the slab tree. In case of bpf tree there could be a shared stable branch. So no delays by two merge windows. > So the sooner the trees converge the better. But yeah it would be simpler. I can try exposing this to -next ASAP and plan to send a second PR separately from the series already there in the second merge window week, if no issues arise, and see if Linus is benevolent.