Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator V2

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > > UDP-U-4k	-2%		0%		-2%
> >
> > Pekka, for this test was SLUB or the page allocator handling the 4K
> > allocations?
>
> The page allocator. The pass-through revert is not in 2.6.29-rc6 and I
> won't be sending it until 2.6.30 opens up.

The page allocator will handle allocs >4k. 4k itself is already buffered
since we saw tbench regressions if we passed 4k through.

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