From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (mail-pa0-f48.google.com [209.85.220.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4566B0032 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:57:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id ey11so49690pad.7 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id be6si3497224pbd.160.2015.01.23.14.57.35 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations Message-Id: <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> References: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo@lge.com, Jesper Dangaard Brouer On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter wrote: > Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate > arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab > allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths. What's the driver for this? The networking people, I think? If so, some discussion about that would be useful: who is involved, why they have this need, who are the people we need to bug to get it tested, whether this implementation is found adequate, etc. -- 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