From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752461AbbAXA2E (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:28:04 -0500 Received: from resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.37]:39800 "EHLO resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbbAXA2C (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:28:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:28:00 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo@lge.com, Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations In-Reply-To: <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter 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.