Re: [PATCH 12/30] mm: memory reserve management

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Also, you might have noticed, I still need to do everything SLOB. The
> last time I rewrote all this code I was still hoping Linux would 'soon'
> have a single slab allocator, but evidently we're still going with 3 for
> now.. :-/
> 
> So I guess I can no longer hide behind that and will have to bite the
> bullet and write the SLOB bits..

Oh, I don't expect SLOB to go away anytime soon. We are still trying to
get rid of SLAB, though, but there are some TPC regressions that we
don't have a reproducible test case for so that effort has stalled a
bit.

		Pekka

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