From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <456E36A7.2050401@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:40:55 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Slab: Remove kmem_cache_t References: <456D0757.6050903@yahoo.com.au> <456D0FC4.4050704@yahoo.com.au> <20061128200619.67080e11.akpm@osdl.org> <456D1FDA.4040201@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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