From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 00/17] Slab Fragmentation Reduction V10 In-Reply-To: <20080223142055.GA6745@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20080216004526.763643520@sgi.com> <20080223000722.a37983eb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080223142055.GA6745@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org