linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slob_free:free objects to their own list

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinif3HZDfS6UEHS5v2b1qVdU3qqStEjE7bOIWks@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:11 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	hannes@...xchg.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob_free:free objects to their own list

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some fragmentation numbers for this. One
> really simple test case is to grep for MemTotal and MemFree in
> /proc/meminfo. I'd expect to see some small improvement with your
> patch applied.

Small correction: grep them immediately after you've booted up the
kernel. If you run applications, the numbers are not comparable.
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