Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> Right, but the user is still left with a decision of which slab allocator
> to compile into their kernel, each with distinct advantages and
> disadvantages that get exploited for the wide range of workloads that it
> runs.  If slob could be merged into another allocator, it would be simple
> to remove the distinction of it being seperate altogether, the differences
> would depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED instead.

No embedded folks that I know are using SLOB. CONFIG_EMBEDDED still would
require a selection of allocators. I have no direct knowledge of anyone
using SLOB (despite traveling widely this year) aside from what Matt tells
me.

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