Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

[Christoph Lameter]

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.

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