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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:02 +0100

> -Andi (who is a bit sceptical and would rather see generic work for
> -this in slab)

SLAB does this to an extent, but it's the other things about
SKB freeing that are expensive and hits lots of cache misses
in these cases.