On Sat, 12 May 2007 10:33:00 +0900
Paul Mundt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:39:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007 09:57:50 -0700
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > > I'll take a look at tidying up the PMB slab, getting rid of the dtor
> > > > shouldn't be terribly painful. I simply opted to do the list management
> > > > there since others were doing it for the PGD slab cache at the time that
> > > > was written.
> > >
> > > And here's the bit for dropping pmb_cache_dtor(), moving the list
> > > management up to pmb_alloc() and pmb_free().
> > >
> > > With this applied, we're all set for killing off slab destructors
> > > from the kernel entirely.
> >
> > hm, this is already in Paul's git tree.
> >
> > If we're going to slam all this into 2.6.22 then I can just tempdrop Paul's
> > tree.
> >
> > However I think we've done enough slab work for 2.6.22 now so I'm inclined
> > to queue these changes for 2.6.23. That would mean that the slab changes in
> > -mm have a dependency on the sh git tree which I am sure to forget about.
> > If I end up merging these changes before Paul merges his tree, sh will
> > break. Presumably Paul will notice this ;)
>
> I can prune it from my tree if you'd rather just bundle these together, I
> wasn't sure what the timeline for these changes were, so I opted just to
> toss the PMB rework in my git tree ahead of time.
>
> On the other hand, if Christoph's changes are going to be queued for
> 2.6.23, the PMB changes will trickle in well before then anyways.
It looks like we'll be going the latter trickle-in way, thanks.
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