Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 15:45:36 EST


On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> Do You see it as a plus ?
> The new allocated slab will be very likely written ( w/o regard
> about the old content ) and an L2 mapping will generate
> invalidate traffic.

If your invalidates are slower than your RAM, you should
consider getting another computer.

Rik

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