Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4

Christoph Lameter
2007-03-09T16:40:58Z

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by per-order queues. The buddy allocator already
> has per-order lists.

Somehow they do not seem to work right. SLAB (and now SLUB too) can avoid
(or defer) fragmentation by keeping its own queues.