From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/17] Slab Fragmentation Reduction V10
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:40 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802271122090.32462@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080223142055.GA6745@one.firstfloor.org>
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I'm a little sceptical about the high order allocations in slub too
> though. Christoph seems to think they're not a big deal, but that is
> against a lot of conventional Linux wisdom at least.
>
> That is one area that probably needs to be explored more.
Well there is a patchset that I posted recently that allows any slub alloc
to fallback to an order 0 alloc. That is something slab cannot do.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-16 0:45 [patch 00/17] Slab Fragmentation Reduction V10 Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 01/17] SLUB: Extend slabinfo to support -D and -F options Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 02/17] SLUB: Add defrag_ratio field and sysfs support Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 03/17] SLUB: Replace ctor field with ops field in /sys/slab/* Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 04/17] SLUB: Add get() and kick() methods Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 05/17] SLUB: Sort slab cache list and establish maximum objects for defrag slabs Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 06/17] SLUB: Slab defrag core Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 07/17] SLUB: Add KICKABLE to avoid repeated kick() attempts Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 08/17] SLUB: Trigger defragmentation from memory reclaim Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 09/17] Buffer heads: Support slab defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 10/17] inodes: Support generic defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 11/17] FS: ExtX filesystem defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 12/17] FS: XFS slab defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 13/17] FS: Proc filesystem support for slab defrag Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 14/17] FS: Slab defrag: Reiserfs support Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 15/17] FS: Socket inode defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 16/17] dentries: Add constructor Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 0:45 ` [patch 17/17] dentries: dentry defragmentation Christoph Lameter
2008-02-23 8:07 ` [patch 00/17] Slab Fragmentation Reduction V10 Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-27 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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