Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator V2

Christoph Lameter
2009-02-26T16:37:37Z

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > > UDP-U-4k -2% 0% -2%
> >
> > Pekka, for this test was SLUB or the page allocator handling the 4K
> > allocations?
>
> The page allocator. The pass-through revert is not in 2.6.29-rc6 and I
> won't be sending it until 2.6.30 opens up.

The page allocator will handle allocs >4k. 4k itself is already buffered
since we saw tbench regressions if we passed 4k through.