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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you whoever wrote kmemcheck.txt
> 
> How come slub uses one byte to track the status of each byte when it 
> could use a single bit?
> 
> 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 ;-)

	Ingo
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