"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Currently, the skbuff allocator in 2.3.x keeps it's own per-cpu cache
> lists and from what we've seen it is quite effective. It won't do as
> well as Ingo's per-cpu slab, but it doesn't have to problems that
> per-cpu slab needs fixed either :-)
It does not shrink through when memory pressure occurs. That probably
needs to get fixed. With slab you would get that for free.
-Andi
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