On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> > > On x86, SLUB creates and handles <=8192-byte allocations internally. > It passes larger ones up to the allocator. Saying "up to order 2" is, > at best, ambiguous. Is that order-1? Or (order-2 bytes)? Make > it more clear. > > SLOB commits a similar sin. It *handles* page-size requests, but the > comment says that it passes up "all page size and larger requests". > > SLOB also swaps around the order of the very-similarly-named > KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH and KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX #defines. Make it > consistent with the order of the other two allocators. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
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