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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: slab: introduce the flag SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:38:49 +0200
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On 04/13/2018 05:10 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13 2018 at  5:22am -0400,
> Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Would this perhaps be a good LSF/MM discussion topic? Mikulas, are you
>> attending, or anyone else that can vouch for your usecase?
> 
> Any further discussion on SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE should continue on list.
> 
> Mikulas won't be at LSF/MM.  But I included Mikulas' dm-bufio changes
> that no longer depend on this proposed SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE (as part of
> the 4.17 merge window).

Can you or Mikulas briefly summarize how the dependency is avoided, and
whether if (something like) SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE were implemented, the
dm-bufio code would happily switch to it, or not?

Thanks,
Vlastimil

> Mike
>