Re: [PATCH] slob_free:free objects to their own list

[Pekka Enberg]

Bob Liu wrote:
> This is  /proc/meminfo result in my test machine:
> without this patch:
> ===
> MemTotal:        1030720 kB
> MemFree:          750012 kB
> Buffers:           15496 kB
> Cached:           160396 kB
> SwapCached:            0 kB
> Active:           105024 kB
> Inactive:         145604 kB
> Active(anon):      74816 kB
> Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
> Active(file):      30208 kB
> Inactive(file):   143424 kB
> Unevictable:          16 kB
> ....
>
> with this patch:
> ===
> MemTotal:        1030720 kB
> MemFree:          751908 kB
> Buffers:           15492 kB
> Cached:           160280 kB
> SwapCached:            0 kB
> Active:           102720 kB
> Inactive:         146140 kB
> Active(anon):      73168 kB
> Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
> Active(file):      29552 kB
> Inactive(file):   143960 kB
> Unevictable:          16 kB
> ...
>
> The result show only very small improverment!
> And when i tested it on a embeded system with 64MB, I found this path
> is never called while kernel booting.

That's 1 MB improvement which is by no means small! I applied the patch. 
 Thanks Bob!
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