Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:48:01 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option |
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On 2/23/06, Alok Kataria <alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com> wrote: > There can be some caches which are not used quite often, kmem_cache for > instance. Now from performance perspective having SLAB_NO_REAP for such > caches is good.
Yeah, kmem_cache sounds like a realistic user, but I am wondering if it makes any sense for anyone else to use it? If you're not using a cache that often, perhaps we're better off using kmalloc() instead?
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