From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f174.google.com (mail-pd0-f174.google.com [209.85.192.174]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD956B006C for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:27:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pdbnk13 with SMTP id nk13so131351023pdb.0 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sfc.wide.ad.jp (shonan.sfc.wide.ad.jp. [203.178.142.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cd8si1789353pdb.6.2015.04.17.08.27.28 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:27:27 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajime Tazaki Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 02/11] slab: add private memory allocator header for arch/lib In-Reply-To: <553121E6.5000005@nod.at> References: <1427202642-1716-1-git-send-email-tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp> <1429263374-57517-1-git-send-email-tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp> <1429263374-57517-3-git-send-email-tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp> <55310033.1060108@nod.at> <553121E6.5000005@nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: richard@nod.at Cc: cl@linux.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, corbet@lwn.net, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jdike@addtoit.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, upa@haeena.net, christoph.paasch@gmail.com, mathieu.lacage@gmail.com, libos-nuse@googlegroups.com At Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:08:22 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >>>> add header includion for CONFIG_LIB to wrap kmalloc and co. This will > >>>> bring malloc(3) based allocator used by arch/lib. > >>> > >>> Maybe add another allocator insteadl? SLLB which implements memory > >>> management using malloc()? > >> > >> Yeah, that's a good idea. > > > > first, my bad, I should be more precise on the commit message. > > > > the patch with 04/11 patch is used _not_ only malloc(3) but > > also any allocator registered by our entry API, lib_init(). > > > > for NUSE case, we use malloc(3) but for DCE (ns-3) case, we > > use our own allocator, which manages the (virtual) process > > running on network simulator. > > > > if these externally configurable memory allocator are point > > of interest in Linux kernel, maybe adding another allocator > > into mm/ is interesting but I'm not sure. what do you think ? > > This is the idea behind SLLB. > > > btw, what does stand for SLLB ? (just curious) > > SLUB is the unqueued SLAB and SLLB is the library SLAB. :D thanks. I will be back with SLLB and give v3 patches soon. -- Hajime -- 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