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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net:  allocate skbs on local node
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Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> I think Christoph is saying that we'd remove SLAB and make the unified
> allocator the new SLAB while keeping SLUB in place.

Right, so his unification patches would be against slab instead of slub 
which is a pretty major change from the current state of the patchset, 
although it might actually be smaller?