On Thu, 9 May 2013, Dave Hansen wrote: > BTW, I really like the 'magazine' name. It's not frequently used in > this kind of context and it conjures up a nice mental image whether it > be of stacks of periodicals or firearm ammunition clips. The term "magazine" was prominently used in the Bonwick article that was the base of the creation of the SLAB allocator. http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick.pdf http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/bonwick.a -- 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>