From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:08:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Yes, to me it does. If it could be defaulted to on throughout the > -rcs, on every architecture, then I'd say that's "finishing work"; > and we'd be safe knowing we could go back to slab in a hurry if > needed. But it hasn't reached that stage yet, I think. Why would we need to go back to SLAB if we have not switched to SLUB? SLUB is marked experimental and not the default. The only problems that I am aware of is(or was) the issue with arches modifying page struct fields of slab pages that SLUB needs for its own operations. And I thought it was all fixed since the powerpc guys were quiet and the patch was in for i386. -- 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