Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 15:19:36 EST


On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Owww... You throw my roadmap out of the window and may create too
high expectations of SLUB.

Me too!

On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

And then there's patches such as kmemleak which would need to target
all three. Plus it doesn't really make sense for users to select
between three competiting implementations. Please don't take away our
high hopes of getting rid of mm/slab.c Christoph =)

Pekka
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