Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

Christoph Lameter
2008-07-31T14:28:26Z

Matt Mackall wrote:

> Finally getting rid of SLAB is a much trickier proposition because SLUB
> still loses in a few important corner cases.

Which corner cases? I know about the reports on the TPC issue which I guess is a result of the avoidance of queueing in the cold free case. It would be good to have a small C program (under an open source license) that shows the issue.