Re: [PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator

Matt Mackall
2006-08-19T04:20:34Z

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:14:06PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily
> using the slab allocator. However, they are conceptually different
> allocators that can be used independently from the slab. Currently the
> slab code is duplicated in slob. This patch also
> simplifies SLOB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Nice.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

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