Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:07:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch] slub: default min_partial to at least highest cpus per node |
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> The page allocator may be getting significantly faster, but that is _not_ > the only reason why we use partial slabs. Higher order slabs, such as the > default for kmalloc-2048, kmalloc-4096, etc., increase the liklihood of > having cpu slabs at that order as opposed to order fallback with a > sufficiently long uptime.
kmalloc-4096 will go away with a faster page allocator.
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