On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> > I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it:
>
> Thanks!
>
> > I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch:
> > I'd better give that a try.
>
> Great. But I certainly do not mind people use SLAB. I do not think that
> one approach should be there for all. Choice is the way to have multiple
> allocators compete. One reason that SLAB is so crusty is because it was
> the only solution for so long.
>
noooo, we don't want competing slab allocators, please. We should get slub
working well on all architectures then remove slab completely. Having to
maintain both slab.c and slub.c would be awful.
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