From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753924AbWKRFn7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:43:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753932AbWKRFn7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:43:59 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:34180 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753924AbWKRFn6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:43:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:43:42 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Manfred Spraul , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg Message-Id: <20061118054342.8884.12804.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> Subject: [RFC 0/7] Remove slab cache declarations in slab.h Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One of the strange issues in include/linux/slab.h that it contains a list of global slab caches. The following patches remove all the global definitions from slab.h and find other ways of defining these caches. 6 of the 7 defined caches are rarely used. One is never used.