Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

[Pekka Enberg]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > We (still!) have not made the decision whether to proceed with slab or
>  > slub.  How hard would it be to port kmemcheck into slab?
>
>  i think slab is clearly out, unless some catastrophic regression is
>  found. But Nick's SLQB might replace SLUB ;-)

Hey, we all have our favorite replacements for kmalloc():

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/patches/binalloc/2.6.25-rc8/kmalloc-binning

But it seems unrealistic to expect any of them to replace SLUB or SLAB
in the near future.

                             Pekka
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