Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node

From: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:36:46 +0300

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> I think Christoph is saying that we'd remove SLAB and make the unified
>> allocator the new SLAB while keeping SLUB in place.

On 10/13/10 9:31 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
>> Right, so his unification patches would be against slab instead of slub
>> which is a pretty major change from the current state of the patchset,
>> although it might actually be smaller?

No, the way I understood it was:

   rm mm/slab.c
   cp mm/slub.c mm/slab.c
<apply patches on top of slab.c>

             Pekka