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Subject: Re: need help interpreting 'free' output.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:52:58 -0800 (PST)
   
   My _preferred_ approach would actually be to move the slab pages to the
   LRU list too, and have a special "slab" address space (we don't need to
   actually hash them, we just make page->mapping point to it), and have the
   cache shrink be done naturally as part of writepage().

This is a cool idea.

So when a SLAB block gets allocated from, we "reference" the
underlying page?

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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