From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755845Ab1KASRg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:17:36 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:50045 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755342Ab1KASRf (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:17:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] staging: zcache: xcfmalloc support From: Dave Hansen To: Nitin Gupta Cc: Seth Jennings , Greg KH , gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com, cascardo@holoscopio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <4E738B81.2070005@vflare.org> References: <1315404547-20075-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110909203447.GB19127@kroah.com> <4E6ACE5B.9040401@vflare.org> <4E6E18C6.8080900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4E6EB802.4070109@vflare.org> <4E6F7DA7.9000706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4E6FC8A1.8070902@vflare.org> <4E72284B.2040907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4E738B81.2070005@vflare.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:30:15 -0700 Message-ID: <1320168615.15403.80.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11110118-8974-0000-0000-000001508D2A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 13:46 -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote: > I think replacing allocator every few weeks isn't a good idea. So, I > guess better would be to let me work for about 2 weeks and try the slab > based approach. If nothing works out in this time, then maybe xcfmalloc > can be integrated after further testing. Hi Nitin, It's been about six weeks. :) Can we talk about putting xcfmalloc() in staging now? -- Dave