From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] remove sk_protinfo series Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:24:28 -0800 Message-ID: <20050125222428.6b076cb1.davem@davemloft.net> References: <41F07497.4020109@conectiva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo In-Reply-To: <41F07497.4020109@conectiva.com.br> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:18:47 -0200 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > This series addresses Christoph and Jean concerns about the overhead > caused by private slab caches in every family, by making sk_alloc use kmalloc > if no slab cache is used, and as a transitional mechanism the zero_it > semantic is maintained, that is, if slab is NULL and zero_it is 1, use the > generic "slab" (sk_cachep) cache. I think we'll need to defer this to 2.6.12 When I setup my 2.6.12 net pending queue tomorrow I'll pull from your tree. I'll probably set this up tomorrow and it will be at: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.6.12 I'll announce it.