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On Mon, 4 May 2020, Andrew Morton wrote:

> But I guess it's better than nothing at all, unless there are
> alternative ideas?

I its highly unsusual to have such large partial lists. In a typical case
allocations whould reduce the size of the lists. 1000s? That is scary.

Are there inodes or dentries by chance?

The defrag stuff that I had been trying to do for a long time would solve
that issue but then objects would need to be made movable....