From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:20:34 -0500 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator Message-ID: <20060819042033.GC19707@waste.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:14:06PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily > using the slab allocator. However, they are conceptually different > allocators that can be used independently from the slab. Currently the > slab code is duplicated in slob. This patch also > simplifies SLOB. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Nice. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org