Re: slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP option

[Pekka Enberg]

On 2/23/06, Alok Kataria <alok.kataria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There can be some caches which are not used quite often, kmem_cache for
> instance. Now from performance perspective having SLAB_NO_REAP for such
> caches is good.

Yeah, kmem_cache sounds like a realistic user, but I am wondering if
it makes any sense for anyone else to use it? If you're not using a
cache that often, perhaps we're better off using kmalloc() instead?

                                   Pekka
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