Re: [PATCH 2/3] xvmalloc memory allocator

[Pekka Enberg]

On 3/20/2009, "Christoph Lameter" <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think, with a bit playing around with interfaces, it can be turned into
> > general purpose allocator (this will most probably lack highmem support).
> 
> Then it would need to implement the SLAB api (see include/linux/slab.h).
> Thus we are getting slab allocator #5.

I do not see the point in that. As I suggested earlier, you should
probably just move this into drivers/block/ and make it a private
compcache allocator.
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