On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It contains more of Christoph's SLAB unification work that reduce the > > differences between different slab allocators. The code has been sitting > > in linux-next without problems. > > > > If you feel this is inappropriate for -rc2, just skip the pull and I'll > > requeue it for 3.10. > > Ugh. It only came a day late, and if you had pushed a bit harder, I'd > have pulled it. But when you put it that way, I really cannot see any > valid reason why it cannot wait, and so I think I'll just expect it > for the next release. > > If you change your mind and realize that it fixes some major bug and > really needs to be pulled after all, holler.
Well this stuff was already ready for 3.8 and missed that merge period as well. There are a couple of bug fixes included as well. It is the basis for more common code between allocators. Most of it is renaming things so that fields have a common name which enables more code sharing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
