linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/slab_common: commonize slab merge logic

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1408210922020.32524@gentwo.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:22:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/slab_common: commonize slab merge logic

On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Slab merge is good feature to reduce fragmentation. Now, it is only
> applied to SLUB, but, it would be good to apply it to SLAB. This patch
> is preparation step to apply slab merge to SLAB by commonizing slab
> merge logic.

Oh. Wow. Never thought that would be possible. Need to have some more time
to review this though.
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