On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:51:42AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 13:04 Matthew Wilcox, <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 05:09:14PM +0800, 郭辉 wrote: > > > On 4/1/23 5:46 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > As the SLOB removal is on track and the SLAB removal is planned, I have > > > > realized - why should we stop there and not remove also SLUB? What's a > > > > slab allocator good for in 2023? The RAM sizes are getting larger and > > > > the modules cheaper [1]. The object constructor trick was perhaps > > > > interesting in 1994, but not with contemporary CPUs. So all the slab > > > > allocator does today is just adding an unnecessary layer of complexity > > > > over the page allocator. > > > > > > The slab allocator is very core and very important to the Linux kernel. > > > After the patch is merged into the mainline, it will have a very profound > > > impact on the development of the Linux kernel. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day > > > Wow! > > The most interesting implication of this "patch" is that you noticed that > some people may actually need the link above to be able to distinguish > between foolishness and reality... As the article says, this is a Western tradition, and we shouldn't assume that somebody from (I assume) China would be familiar with this particular foolishness ;-)
