Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

[Pekka J Enberg]

Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Of course you are the maintainer but you only authored a single patch 
> which was the original submission in all the time that SLOB was in the 
> tree. I keep having to clean up the allocator that has--according to 
> Pekka--more memory requirements than SLUB. There is no point in keeping it 
> around anymore it seems.

Well, it was a test setup with UML and busybox and didn't have all the 
SLOB optimizations Nick mentioned, so we shouldn't draw any definite 
conclusions from it. I couldn't get 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 to compile so I'll try 
again after Andrew pushes a new release out.

Furthermore, as much as I would like to see SLOB nuked too, we can't do 
that until Matt and Nick are satisfied with SLUB for small devices and 
what I can gather, they aren't.

			Pekka
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