linux-kernel - Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:45 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator

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.

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:32 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We use the partial list for that.

Even if the slab is totally empty?

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