On Sat, 12 May 2007 10:33:00 +0900 Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:39:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 09:57:50 -0700 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I'll take a look at tidying up the PMB slab, getting rid of the dtor > > > > shouldn't be terribly painful. I simply opted to do the list management > > > > there since others were doing it for the PGD slab cache at the time that > > > > was written. > > > > > > And here's the bit for dropping pmb_cache_dtor(), moving the list > > > management up to pmb_alloc() and pmb_free(). > > > > > > With this applied, we're all set for killing off slab destructors > > > from the kernel entirely. > > > > hm, this is already in Paul's git tree. > > > > If we're going to slam all this into 2.6.22 then I can just tempdrop Paul's > > tree. > > > > However I think we've done enough slab work for 2.6.22 now so I'm inclined > > to queue these changes for 2.6.23. That would mean that the slab changes in > > -mm have a dependency on the sh git tree which I am sure to forget about. > > If I end up merging these changes before Paul merges his tree, sh will > > break. Presumably Paul will notice this ;) > > I can prune it from my tree if you'd rather just bundle these together, I > wasn't sure what the timeline for these changes were, so I opted just to > toss the PMB rework in my git tree ahead of time. > > On the other hand, if Christoph's changes are going to be queued for > 2.6.23, the PMB changes will trickle in well before then anyways. It looks like we'll be going the latter trickle-in way, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
