linux-kernel - Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	celinux-dev@...ts.celinuxforum.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator

On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> But SLAB suffers from a lot more internal fragmentation than SLUB,
> which I guess is a known fact. So memory-constrained devices
> would waste more memory by using SLAB.

Even with slub's per-cpu partial lists?
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