On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:35:27AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:00:08PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > As far as I can tell there is only a single slab destructor left (there
> > is currently another in i386 but its going to go as soon as Andi merges
> > i386s suppor
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:00:08PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> As far as I can tell there is only a single slab destructor left (there
> is currently another in i386 but its going to go as soon as Andi merges
> i386s support for quicklists).
>
> I wonder how difficult it would be to remove
On 5/10/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Or are there valid reason to keep them around? It seems they were mainly
>> used for list management which required them to take a spinlock. Taking a
>> spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab allocators may run
>> the destr
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Or do we want to continue support destructors? If so why?
>
> Well, constructors are on their way out too because they don't seem to
> give the performance benefit they were designed for anymore. As for
> destructors, they have been pretty useless in L
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:00:08PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> As far as I can tell there is only a single slab destructor left (there
> is currently another in i386 but its going to go as soon as Andi merges
> i386s support for quicklists).
> I wonder how difficult it would be to remove it
On 5/10/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Or are there valid reason to keep them around? It seems they were mainly
used for list management which required them to take a spinlock. Taking a
spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab allocators may run
the destructors any
As far as I can tell there is only a single slab destructor left (there
is currently another in i386 but its going to go as soon as Andi merges
i386s support for quicklists).
I wonder how difficult it would be to remove it? If we have no need for
destructors anymore then maybe we could remove d
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