Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:23:04 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes |
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > it provides lifo allocations from both partial and unused slabs. > > lifo/fifo for unused slabs is obviously superflous - free is > free, it doesn't matter which free page is used first/last.
Mind that the L2 cache is often as much as 10 times faster than RAM, so it would be nice if we had a good chance that the slab we just allocated would be in L2 cache.
regards,
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