Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 18:37:43 EST


On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:27:28 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > argh, I never 100% understood the slab gobbledygook, and now we have slub
> > gobbledygook. I _hope_ what that's saying is that the 00 at 0xc90f6d28
> > wasn't supposed to be there.
>
> Exactly. I tried to make the SLUB gobbledygook better.

Actually now I look at it and work out what "b4" meant, it's not all that
gobbledygooky. It's unclear what "Filler" means though.

> Any other ideas on
> how to improve it?

A few words in slub.txt, perhaps?
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