On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:54:57 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > >> I failed to add the slab maintainers to CC on the last attempt. Trying > >> again. > > > > Hmmm... Yea. SLOB is rarely used and tested. Good illustration of a simple > > allocator and the K&R mechanism that was used in the early kernels. > > Should we finally just get rid of SLOB? > > I'm not happy about the whole "three different allocators" crap. It's > been there for much too long, and I've tried to cut it down before. > People always protest, but three different allocators, one of which > gets basically no testing, is not good. > I am not aware of anyone using slob. We could disable it in Kconfig for a year, see what the feedback looks like.
