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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > Especially when you use something like SLUB as the memory allocator
> > which requires higher order allocations for objects which are pinned
> > in kernel memory.
>
> I guess we'd need to merge the SLUB defragmentation patches to fix that?

1. SLUB does not require higher order allocations.

2. SLUB defrag patches would allow reclaim / moving of slab memory but
would require callbacks to be provided by slab users to remove references
to objects.

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