On Mon 13-11-23 20:13:41, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has objected > so far. As we agreed at LSF/MM, we should wait with the removal until > the next LTS kernel is released. AFAIK that version hasn't been > announced yet, but assuming it would be 6.7, we can aim for 6.8 and > start exposing the removal to linux-next during the 6.7 cycle. Makes sense to me. [...] > 27 files changed, 784 insertions(+), 5122 deletions(-) This is just too much of a maintenance burden to have a comfort of multiple low level allocators. So it is good to see it go. Not that I would have anything against SLAB allocator as such but if we need to choose SLUB seems like a better choice. Thanks for all the work! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
