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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next prev parent 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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