linux-kernel - Re: Do we really need SLOB nowdays?

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Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:17:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.de>
To:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Do we really need SLOB nowdays?

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:

> > Better for what use case?  SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM.
> >
>
> 1~16M is smaller than I thought. Hmm... I'm going to see how it works on
> tiny configuration. Thank you Matthew!

Is there any reference where we can see such a configuration? Sure it does
not work with SLUB too?