Re: [rfc][patch 3/3] use SLAB_ALIGN_SMP

Nick Piggin
2008-03-03T20:19:01Z

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:12:15PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that's what I thought too, when I got confused by these new
> > SLUB semantics that you made up. Actually if you look at SLAB,
> > it has very precise and rational semantics. SLUB should respect that.
>
> These crappy semantics are SLAB semantics that SLUB must support.

They are only crappy in SLUB. In SLAB they are actually useful.