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Commit 34013886 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Fix spellings of slab allocator section in init/Kconfig 



Fix some of the spelling issues. Fix sentences. Discourage SLOB use
since SLUB can pack objects denser.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7ae439ce

init/Kconfig

+7 −8
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@@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ config SLAB 
	bool "SLAB"

	help

	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work

	  well in all environments. It organizes chache hot objects in

	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in

	  per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for

	  slab allocator.

	  a slab allocator.



config SLUB

	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
@@ -535,21 +535,20 @@ config SLUB 
	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).

	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead

	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently

	   way and has enhanced diagnostics.

	   and has enhanced diagnostics.



config SLOB

#

#	SLOB cannot support SMP because SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does not work

#	properly.

#	SLOB does not support SMP because SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is unsupported

#

	depends on EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM

	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"

	help

	   SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler

	   allocator.  SLOB is more space efficient that SLAB but does not

	   scale well (single lock for all operations) and is more susceptible

	   to fragmentation. SLOB it is a great choice to reduce

	   memory usage and code size for embedded systems.

	   scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly

	   susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object

	   density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.



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