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

Nick Piggin
2007-05-24T04:49:32Z

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:46:51PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Hmmm.. This confirms your findings:
>
> 16m x86_64 boot with bin/bash
>
> SLOB:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 11660 9344 2316 0 256 3240
> -/+ buffers/cache: 5848 5812
>
>
> SLUB:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 11652 9684 1968 0 256 3240
> -/+ buffers/cache: 6188 5464
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> So a little less than 400k wastage.

It would be interesting to see how a 32-bit system goes as well. I'll
try i386 when I get time.

> No changes to the kmalloc array.