Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] slab: make more slab management structure off theslab

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Mon Dec 02 2013 - 21:10:52 EST


On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:58:41PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> > Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish,
> > so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space
> > if the object of the slab is large.
>
> Hmmm.. That is confusing to me. "Since the size of the freelist has shrunk
> significantly we have to adjust the heuristic for making the on/off slab
> placement decision"?
>
> Make this clearer.

Yes. your understanding is right.
I will replace above line with yours.

Thanks.

>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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