Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

Christoph Lameter
2007-02-25T00:14:53Z

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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:

> How much of a gain is the merging anyway? Once you start having
> explicit whitelists or blacklists of pools that can be merged, one can
> start to wonder if the result is worth the effort.

It eliminates 50% of the slab caches. Thus it reduces the management
overhead by half.