Huh, thanks to the article, I learned that SLOB's maintainer was Mercurial's creator, Olivia Mackall. I'm in awe of these people who are involved in more than one gigantic project in their lifetime.
This detail of an in kernel allocator isn't very important or novel, but Linux changes are easy to report on since they're done in public, so they get articles.
Most links here have dozens of points, this (and a couple of others) only has seven. Perhaps a “hot” metric saw a few votes come in quickly and overestimated its general interest. It should fall off the front page very quickly.
you realize that you can just ignore links you don't find interesting instead of complaining, right? that's what everyone else does. HN is not your own personal link curator
Agreed. I wish the article dove into how SLAB works, why it is being deprecated, and what it's modern equivalent/replacement is. That would've been worth reading.
I clicked a few of the links in the article and the links in those articles and didn't find any of that.
This is just an announcement for those in the know.
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Excuse me, I think you mean “SLÖB”!
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His best known works include FFMPEG and QEMU, there are many others.
(1): Uninteresting but not irrelevant. Like a step in a stair, each step is uninteresting but relevant as missing a step is a huge issue.
Because this is not about changing how Linux allocates memory.
It's about deprecating a method Linux used in the past but has by default switched away from already in the past.
I clicked a few of the links in the article and the links in those articles and didn't find any of that.
This is just an announcement for those in the know.