On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote: > > > Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate > > arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab > > allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths. > > What's the driver for this? The networking people, I think? If so, > some discussion about that would be useful: who is involved, why they > have this need, who are the people we need to bug to get it tested, > whether this implementation is found adequate, etc.
Jesper and I gave a talk at LCA about this. LWN has an article on it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
