> It does not seem this machine has much room for allocating 8K
> (except for the single 64K and 16K slab)
> Or maybe we are interpreting the info in slabinfo incorrectly?
You are. Interesting is the fragmentation of the underlying page allocator,
not so much of the "higher level" slab allocator which is just another user
of the buddy. If you add up the sizes of the slab objects you'll see that
they all are only about 2MB together.
-Andi
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