From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] slab fixes for 3.2-rc4
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:09:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221170940.GC9213@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLE55zXt_PCmvyykP_-W26AHXOJ+zEPs3EVC-Xqazwn2tQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:08:48AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Sure but well-defined semantics alone are not sufficient for a
> reasonable API. It's not at all obvious which one of the four variants
> to pick when writing code. I don't see any evidence that people
> actually understand the API. On the contrary, I see bugs caused by API
> confusion in mm/slub.c itself!
Sure, I agree. If nobody beats me to it, I'll try to clean it up for
the merge window after the coming one (ie. 3.4). But please feel free
to submit patches to gut out cruft and clean up. I'll be happy to
apply them.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111292001420.4019@tux.localdomain>
2011-11-29 19:29 ` [GIT PULL] slab fixes for 3.2-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-20 9:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-20 16:23 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 16:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-20 16:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-20 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-20 20:28 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-21 8:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-21 17:09 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-12-21 15:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-21 17:05 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-22 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 16:05 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-28 10:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-12-22 14:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-22 14:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-22 16:08 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-22 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-22 18:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-22 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-23 16:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-23 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-04 15:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-04 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-04 17:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-04 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-04 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-05 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-05 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 18:47 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-20 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-21 8:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-21 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
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