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DateMon, 10 Mar 2008 21:41:00 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Move memory controller allocations to their own slabs
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:01:49 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Move the memory controller data structures page_cgroup and
> mem_cgroup_per_zone to their own slab caches. It saves space on the system,
> allocations are not necessarily pushed to order of 2 and should provide
> performance benefits.

eh?  Those structures are tiny.  Which slab allocator has gone and used an
order-2 allocation and for which structure did it (stupidly) do this?




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