From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:40:58 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070307023502.19658.39217.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070308174004.GB12958@skynet.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , mpm@selenic.com, Manfred Spraul List-ID: On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by per-order queues. The buddy allocator already > has per-order lists. Somehow they do not seem to work right. SLAB (and now SLUB too) can avoid (or defer) fragmentation by keeping its own queues. -- 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