Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node

Christoph Lameter
2010-10-15T14:23:33Z

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > > I was going to mention that as an idea, but I thought storing the metadata
> > > for certain debugging features might differ from the two allocators so
> > > substantially that it would be even more convoluted and difficult to
> > > maintain?
> >
> > We could have some callbacks to store allocator specific metadata?
> >
>
> It depends on whether we could share the same base for both slab (unified
> allocator) and slub, which you snipped from your reply, that would make
> this cleaner.

I already said before that we should consider having a common base so I
thought that was not necessary.