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

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Message-ID: <YXqSoo+b9RTclW/2@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:08:02 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.de>,
        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 Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:04:14AM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I thought why Matthew said "SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM"
> is because if memory is so low, then it is sensitive to memory usage.
> 
> (But I still have doubt if we can run linux on machines like that.)

I sent you a series of articles about making Linux run in 1MB.