Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:53:11 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:32:49 -0800 (PST)
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > I also agree with Andi in that merging could mess up how object type > > local lifetimes help reduce fragmentation in object pools. > > If that is a problem for particular object pools then we may be able to > except those from the merging.
If it is a problem, it's going to be a problem "in general" and not for specific SLAB caches.
I think this is really a very unwise idea. We have enough fragmentation problems as it is. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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