From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:19:09 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:10:29 +0100 (BST) > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > Most of the rest of slub. Will merge it all. > > > > Merging slub already? I'm surprised. > > My thinking here is "does slub have a future". > I think the answer is "yes", I think I agree with that, though it's a judgement I'd leave to you and others. > so we're reasonably safe getting it into mainline for the finishing > work. The kernel.org kernel will still default to slab. > > Does that sound wrong? 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. Hugh -- 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