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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:32:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> That is, a list of pages that could be returned to the page allocator
> but are pooled in SLUB to avoid the page allocator overhead. Note that
> this will not help allocators that trigger page allocator pass-through.

We use the partial list for that.

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