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

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:53:47 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, 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, 2010-07-13 at 20:52 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> [ Please CC me on SLOB patches. You can use the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl'
>   script to figure out automatically who to CC on your patches. ]
> 
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com> wrote:
> > slob has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce
> > overall external fragmentation and increase repeatability,
> > free to their own list also.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>
> 
> The patch looks sane to me. Matt, does it look OK to you as well?

Yep, this should be a marginal improvement.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

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