> Or put it again into 2.3 or whatever. [...]
it breaks the interface. The SLAB allocator should not be faulted for
other code not using it's capabilities ... It's not something obsolete,
it's a future use ...
> [...] Even after my patch, there appears to be still *PLENTY* of room
> for other simplifications/optimizations in slab.c.
your patches are welcome! (Last i checked it had a near perfect jumpless
fast path.)
-- mingo
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