From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so380559wfc.11 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <84144f020810230658o7c6b3651k2d671aab09aa71fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:58:53 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1223883004.31587.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <84144f020810221348j536f0d84vca039ff32676e2cc@mail.gmail.com> <1224745831.25814.21.camel@penberg-laptop> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Miklos Szeredi , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Solid? What is not solid? The SLUB design was made in part because of the > defrag problems that were not easy to solve with SLAB. The ability to lock > down a slab allows stabilizing objects. We discussed solutions to the > fragmentation problem for years and did not get anywhere with SLAB. I'd assume he's talking about the Intel-reported regression that's yet to be resolved. -- 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