Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

Matt Mackall
2008-07-31T15:41:54Z

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:26 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 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.

That's the one I had in mind, which I have no personal insight into.

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