Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator

Christoph Lameter
2009-02-04T20:15:33Z

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Well, the slab_hiwater() check in __slab_free() of mm/slqb.c will cap
> the size of the queue. But we do the same thing in SLAB with
> alien->limit in cache_free_alien() and ac->limit in __cache_free(). So
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the queues will "grow
> unconstrained" (in either of the allocators). Hmm?

Nick said he wanted to defer queue processing. If the water marks are
checked and queue processing run then of course queue processing is not
deferred and the queue does not build up further.