From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:36:27 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache In-Reply-To: <47CC822E.8040702@cs.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: References: <20080229044803.482012397@sgi.com> <20080229044820.044485187@sgi.com> <47C7BEA8.4040906@cs.helsinki.fi> <84144f020803010147y489b06fdx479ed0af931de08b@mail.gmail.com> <47CC822E.8040702@cs.helsinki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Mel Gorman , Matt Mackall , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hmm, I seem to be missing something here. For page size of 4KB, object size of > 8KB, and min_order of zero, when I write zero order to > /sys/kernel/slab//order the kernel won't crash because...? The slab allocator will override and force the use of order 1 allocations. -- 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