Re: Do we really need SLOB nowdays?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:04:14AM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > 
> > > > Better for what use case?  SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 1~16M is smaller than I thought. Hmm... I'm going to see how it works on
> > > tiny configuration. Thank you Matthew!
> > 
> > Is there any reference where we can see such a configuration? Sure it does
> > not work with SLUB too?
> 
> I thought why Matthew said "SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM"
> is because if memory is so low, then it is sensitive to memory usage.
> 
> (But I still have doubt if we can run linux on machines like that.)

I sent you a series of articles about making Linux run in 1MB.