Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

You're delusional.


Git log says otherwise:

git log --pretty=short mm/slob.c

Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Slab allocators: Drop support for destructors
Author: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
slob: implement RCU freeing
Author: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
slob: fix page order calculation on not 4KB page
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
Author: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
slob: handle SLAB_PANIC flag
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
slab: introduce krealloc
Author: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.h
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] More slab.h cleanups
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] Cleanup slab headers / API to allow easy addition of new slab allocators
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
[PATCH] Make kmem_cache_destroy() return void
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] ZVC: Support NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE / NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE
Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator
Author: Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Author: John Hawkes <hawkes@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] mm/slob.c: for_each_possible_cpu(), not NR_CPUS
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
[PATCH] SLOB=y && SMP=y fix
Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator

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