Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 11:41:39 EST


On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by per-order queues. The buddy allocator already
> has per-order lists.

Somehow they do not seem to work right. SLAB (and now SLUB too) can avoid
(or defer) fragmentation by keeping its own queues.
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