[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add notification about some major slab events

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Wed Sep 26 10:31:08 PDT 2007


On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> True, but we mark the slubs as notifyable at runtime, after they
> are merged. However, once someone decides to make his slab notifyable
> from the very beginning this makes sense, thanks.

This also makes sense if a device driver later creates a new slab. Adding 
the bit will switch off additional merges for that slab.

> Oh, great! Does this mean I can put Acked-by when sending this to Andrew?

Yes.




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