From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
mpm@selenic.com, Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Extract kmalloc.h and slob.h from slab.h
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:39:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611291937560.19557@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456E4A53.2030000@yahoo.com.au>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I don't see the problem with slab/slob. It is not the nicest code, but it
> isn't unreadable. We do something very similar with nommu, for (perhaps
> not the best!) example.
I need some order in there to add another type of slab allocator without
getting into an umaintainable mess.
> But kmalloc seems like one thing that could be split nicely. It would
> allow you to get rid of asm/page.h and asm/cache.h from slab.h
> (converting callers would be a bigger job).
What callers would need to be converted?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 6:33 Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 8:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 18:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:07 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-11-28 19:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:19 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-11-28 19:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 19:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 19:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 0:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 7:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-29 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29 8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 8:38 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30 1:58 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 2:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30 3:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 3:39 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2006-11-30 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 3:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30 4:18 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 4:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30 5:01 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 7:12 ` Pekka Enberg
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