Re: Do we really need SLOB nowdays?
From: Hyeonggon Yoo
Date: Sat Oct 30 2021 - 02:12:36 EST
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 01:08:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
Oh I missed your mail, I'm gonna read this!
Thanks!
Thanks,
Hyeonggon.