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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished
 making slub perform as well
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:42:26 -0500
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Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Setting remote_node_defrag_ratio to 100 will make slub always take the remote
> slab instead of allocating a new one.

As pointed out by Adrian D. off list:

The max remote_node_defrag_ratio is 99.

Maybe we need to change the comparison in remote_node_defrag_ratio_store() to
allow 100 to switch off any node local allocs?