On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:54:57 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote: >> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: >> > >> >> I failed to add the slab maintainers to CC on the last attempt. Trying >> >> again. >> > >> > Hmmm... Yea. SLOB is rarely used and tested. Good illustration of a simple >> > allocator and the K&R mechanism that was used in the early kernels. >> >> Should we finally just get rid of SLOB? >> >> I'm not happy about the whole "three different allocators" crap. It's >> been there for much too long, and I've tried to cut it down before. >> People always protest, but three different allocators, one of which >> gets basically no testing, is not good. > > I am not aware of anyone using slob. We could disable it in Kconfig > for a year, see what the feedback looks like. $ git grep CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/clps711x_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/multi_v4t_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/tct_hammer_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/arm/configs/xcep_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/blackfin/configs/DNP5370_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/h8300/configs/edosk2674_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/h8300/configs/h8300h-sim_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/h8300/configs/h8s-sim_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/openrisc/configs/or1ksim_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/sh/configs/rsk7201_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/sh/configs/se7206_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/sh/configs/shmin_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y arch/sh/configs/shx3_defconfig:CONFIG_SLOB=y kernel/configs/tiny.config:CONFIG_SLOB=y $ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds