From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx133.postini.com [74.125.245.133]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 638646B002B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 03:29:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wibhq7 with SMTP id hq7so1722737wib.8 for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:28:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1348571866-31738-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <00000139fe408877-40bc98e3-322c-4ba2-be72-e298ff28e694-000000@email.amazonses.com> <5062C029.308@parallels.com> <5063F94C.4090600@parallels.com> <0000013a0d390e11-03bf6f97-a8b7-4229-9f69-84aa85795b7e-000000@email.amazonses.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:28:58 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Christoph Lameter , Glauber Costa , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko Hello, [=A0Found this in my @cs.helsinki.fi inbox, grmbl.=A0] On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Rientjes wrot= e: > The first prototype, SLAM XP1, will be posted in October. I'd simply lik= e > to avoid reverting this patch down the road and having all of us > reconsider the topic again when clear alternatives exist that, in my > opinion, make the code cleaner. David, I'm sure you know we don't work speculatively against out-of-tree code that may or may not be include in the future... That said, I don't like Glauber's patch because it leaves CREATE_MASK in mm/slab.c. And I'm not totally convinced a generic SLAB_INTERNAL is going to cut it either. Hmm. Pekka -- 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