From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:49:32 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling Message-ID: <20070524044932.GD12121@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070523193547.GE11115@waste.org> <20070524033925.GD14349@wotan.suse.de> <20070524041339.GC20252@wotan.suse.de> <20070524043144.GB12121@wotan.suse.de> <20070524043928.GC12121@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:46:51PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Hmmm.. This confirms your findings: > > 16m x86_64 boot with bin/bash > > SLOB: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 11660 9344 2316 0 256 3240 > -/+ buffers/cache: 5848 5812 > > > SLUB: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 11652 9684 1968 0 256 3240 > -/+ buffers/cache: 6188 5464 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > So a little less than 400k wastage. It would be interesting to see how a 32-bit system goes as well. I'll try i386 when I get time. > No changes to the kmalloc array. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org