Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:25:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | 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.
You're full of crap.
LIFO is obviously superior due to cache re-use.
Linus
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