Re: [RFC 0/3] Slab allocator array operations

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:37:27 -0600 Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

Jesper and I gave a talk at LCA about this. LWN has an article on it.

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