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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>, Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: slab-nomerge (was Re: [git pull] device mapper changes for 4.3)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:55:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150902215512.9d0d62e74fa2f0a460a42af9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1509022152470.18064@east.gentwo.org>

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:10:12 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:

> > But I'd still like some pointers/help on what makes slab merging so
> > beneficial.  I'm sure Christoph and others have justification.  But if
> > not then yes the default to slab merging probably should be revisited.
> 
> ...
>
> Check out the linux-mm archives for these dissussions.

Somewhat OT, but...  The question Mike asks should be comprehensively
answered right there in the switch-to-merging patch's changelog.

The fact that it is not answered in the appropriate place and that
we're reduced to vaguely waving at the list archives is a fail.  And a
lesson!

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02 23:13 slab-nomerge (was Re: [git pull] device mapper changes for 4.3) Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03  0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2015-09-03  0:53   ` Mike Snitzer
2015-09-03  0:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2015-09-03  1:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03  2:31     ` Mike Snitzer
2015-09-03  3:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-03  4:55         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-09-03  6:09           ` Pekka Enberg
2015-09-03  8:53             ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-03  3:11       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03  6:02     ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-03  6:13       ` Pekka Enberg
2015-09-03 10:29       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-09-03 16:19         ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-04  9:10           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-09-04 14:13             ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-04  6:35         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-04  7:01           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-04  7:59             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-04  9:56               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-04 14:05               ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-04 14:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-05  2:09                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-05 20:33                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-07  8:44                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-08  0:22                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-03 15:02       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-04  3:26         ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-04  3:51           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-05  0:36             ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-07  9:30             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-09-07 20:22               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-07 21:17                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-09-04 13:55           ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-04 22:46             ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-05  0:25               ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-05  1:16                 ` Dave Chinner

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