From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755768AbYAQR6w (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:58:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752366AbYAQR6o (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:58:44 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:59379 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226AbYAQR6o (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:58:44 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PATCH 3 of 3] slob: correct Kconfig description X-Mercurial-Node: db1f4e74c5ab1536964792d53f1575402542531a Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:57:21 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall diff -r eff994add207 -r db1f4e74c5ab init/Kconfig --- a/init/Kconfig Wed Jan 16 18:14:29 2008 -0600 +++ b/init/Kconfig Wed Jan 16 18:14:29 2008 -0600 @@ -648,11 +648,9 @@ depends on EMBEDDED bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" help - SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler - allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not - scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly - susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object - density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB. + SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler + allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but + does not perform as well on large systems. endchoice