From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/30] mm: memory reserve management Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:41:24 +0300 Message-ID: <1217241684.7813.59.camel@penberg-laptop> References: <20080724140042.408642539@chello.nl> <20080724141530.127530749@chello.nl> <1217239564.7813.36.camel@penberg-laptop> <1217240224.6331.32.camel@twins> <1217240994.7813.53.camel@penberg-laptop> <1217241541.6331.42.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Daniel Lezcano , Neil Brown , mpm@selenic.com, cl@linux-foundation.org To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:56907 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753696AbYG1KlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:41:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1217241541.6331.42.camel@twins> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Peter, On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Also, you might have noticed, I still need to do everything SLOB. The > last time I rewrote all this code I was still hoping Linux would 'soon' > have a single slab allocator, but evidently we're still going with 3 for > now.. :-/ > > So I guess I can no longer hide behind that and will have to bite the > bullet and write the SLOB bits.. Oh, I don't expect SLOB to go away anytime soon. We are still trying to get rid of SLAB, though, but there are some TPC regressions that we don't have a reproducible test case for so that effort has stalled a bit. Pekka