Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

[David Miller]

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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