linux-kernel - Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703090839540.7250@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:40:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	akpm@...l.org, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	mpm@...enic.com, Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4

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.
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