On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > I assume with "slab external fragmentation" you mean allocating a > whole page for a slab when there are not enough objects to fill the > whole thing thus wasting memory? We could try to combat that by > packing multiple variable-sized slabs within a single page. Also, > adding some non-power-of-two kmalloc caches might help with internal > fragmentation.
Ther are already non-power-of-two kmalloc caches for 96 and 192 bytes sizes. > > In any case, SLUB needs some serious tuning for smaller machines > before we can get rid of SLOB. Switch off CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to get memory savings. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
