From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26A556B0044 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:28:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:28:22 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <84144f020911192249l6c7fa495t1a05294c8f5b6ac8@mail.gmail.com> <1258729748.4104.223.camel@laptop> <1259002800.5630.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <1259003425.17871.328.camel@calx> <4B0ADEF5.9040001@cs.helsinki.fi> <1259080406.4531.1645.camel@laptop> <20091124170032.GC6831@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1259082756.17871.607.camel@calx> <1259086459.4531.1752.camel@laptop> <1259090615.17871.696.camel@calx> <84144f020911241307u14cd2cf0h614827137e42378e@mail.gmail.com> <1259103315.17871.895.camel@calx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: Matt Mackall , Pekka Enberg , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin List-ID: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > I'm afraid I have only anecdotal reports from SLOB users, and embedded > > folks are notorious for lack of feedback, but I only need a few people > > to tell me they're shipping 100k units/mo to be confident that SLOB is > > in use in millions of devices. > > > > It's much more popular than I had expected; do you think it would be > possible to merge slob's core into another allocator or will it require > seperation forever? It would be possible to create a slab-common.c and isolate common handling of all allocators. SLUB and SLQB share quite a lot of code and SLAB could be cleaned up and made to fit into such a framework. -- 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