From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qa0-f51.google.com (mail-qa0-f51.google.com [209.85.216.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D385B6B0032 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:28:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id f12so316843qad.10 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from resqmta-ch2-02v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-02v.sys.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9si4034359qgf.109.2015.01.23.16.28.01 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:28:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:28:00 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations In-Reply-To: <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo@lge.com, Jesper Dangaard Brouer On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate > > arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab > > allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths. > > What's the driver for this? The networking people, I think? If so, > some discussion about that would be useful: who is involved, why they > have this need, who are the people we need to bug to get it tested, > whether this implementation is found adequate, etc. Jesper and I gave a talk at LCA about this. LWN has an article on it. -- 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