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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> Fold the sense buffer into the command, thereby eliminating a slab
> allocation and free per command.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Interesting. I wonder how this affects the SLAB vs. SLUB regression
people are seeing on high end machines in OLTP benchmarks.

                                      Pekka