Re: [PATCH 00/20] remove the SLAB allocator

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 13-11-23 20:13:41, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has objected
> so far. As we agreed at LSF/MM, we should wait with the removal until
> the next LTS kernel is released. AFAIK that version hasn't been
> announced yet, but assuming it would be 6.7, we can aim for 6.8 and
> start exposing the removal to linux-next during the 6.7 cycle.

Makes sense to me.
[...]
>  27 files changed, 784 insertions(+), 5122 deletions(-)

This is just too much of a maintenance burden to have a comfort of
multiple low level allocators. So it is good to see it go. Not that I
would have anything against SLAB allocator as such but if we need to
choose SLUB seems like a better choice.

Thanks for all the work!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs