On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > > >> This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be > >> retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page > >> as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes. > >> There is no need to store the allocated size and > >> ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page). > > > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Who's the slob maintainer? Currently MAINTAINERS file > mentions slob's author Matt Mackal, but I didn't notice his presence > in this ML. Well I have not heard from him recently. Matt, Pekka and I are the "official" (whatever that means...) maintainers of the slab allocators which includes slob. See the MAINTAINERS file. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>