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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231113191340.17482-22-vbabka@suse.cz> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 1E644100020 X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: 6eqf755x9p4mrwsk6gw5t7u3mwt4h6mb X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-HE-Tag: 1699960722-694023 X-HE-Meta: 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 pzAMAUYI zaVJNTguTpfbO1Sr7Fg8GnA304JLzNS2iCCQSza9qbvb7TbpUN4ZHJ7PtUKfYeoKhafm4stEOLtU5uSQ7TTY0emS6OEAIfLEk71e7GaxBVfTMzaZMBBF8YgLKtPymsVvwRfUSJFiN45DAmQqDwp0TQT+FQhU7Sybur9UY05FcvZ2iQ/8BmQ8ONCKtfUJ6xHeda4DshdvtqAYlxI3Tl66c7NckVM3MPupzOaMW24MjoCXYc/U8Nrtr3qmIOvLEV+qrHJgZ X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon 13-11-23 20:13:41, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has objected > so far. As we agreed at LSF/MM, we should wait with the removal until > the next LTS kernel is released. AFAIK that version hasn't been > announced yet, but assuming it would be 6.7, we can aim for 6.8 and > start exposing the removal to linux-next during the 6.7 cycle. Makes sense to me. [...] > 27 files changed, 784 insertions(+), 5122 deletions(-) This is just too much of a maintenance burden to have a comfort of multiple low level allocators. So it is good to see it go. Not that I would have anything against SLAB allocator as such but if we need to choose SLUB seems like a better choice. Thanks for all the work! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs