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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: REN2 [07/13] Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
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To: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> I mean: why do we need to maintain 32 bytes as the smallest kmalloc cache?

SLABs metadata structures do not allow smaller caches.

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