From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752324AbbAWW5i (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:57:38 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41566 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbbAWW5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:57:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter 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 Message-Id: <20150123145734.aa3c6c6e7432bc3534f2c4cc@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> References: <20150123213727.142554068@linux.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.