From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Slab: Remove kmem_cache_t
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:40:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456E36A7.2050401@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611290738270.3395@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>I don't see why pagetable types are conceptually different from slab here.
>
>
> Because they are fundamentally _different_ on different architectures.
So is struct kmem_cache for slab vs slob.
> If they were always the same, they wouldn't be typedefs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-29 2:49 Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 3:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29 4:06 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 3:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 4:42 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 4:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29 4:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-29 5:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30 1:40 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-11-30 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30 2:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 6:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-29 5:41 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 6:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29 6:41 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29 7:23 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 7:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29 8:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30 1:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 19:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-29 19:27 ` Christoph Lameter
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