Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling

Christoph Lameter
2007-05-23T06:28:18Z

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> If you want to do a memory consumption shootout with SLOB, you need
> all the help you can get ;)

No way. And first you'd have to make SLOB functional. Among other
things it does not support slab reclaim.

> OK, so with a 64-bit UP ppc kernel, compiled for size, and without full
> size data structures, booting with mem=16M init=/bin/bash.
>
> 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 + your fix + my slob patches.
>
> After booting and mounting /proc, SLOB has 1140K free, SLUB has 748K
> free.

Hmm.... Can I see the .config please?