Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:41:19 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1 |
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 1. shrink_slab takes a function to move object. Using that > > function slabs can be defragmented to ease slab reclaim. > > Does that help with the inefficient dcache/icache pruning?
There was a fair amount of debate on this at the VM summit.
The approach we thought was most promising started with splitting the dcache into directory and leaf entries.
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