Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> noooo, we don't want competing slab allocators, please.  We should get slub
> working well on all architectures then remove slab completely.  Having to
> maintain both slab.c and slub.c would be awful.

Owww... You throw my roadmap out of the window and may create too 
high expectations of SLUB.

I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been 
dealing with the trio SLAB, SLOB and SLUB for awhile now. Its okay and it 
will be much easier once the cleanups are in.
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