Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756360AbYAJSKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:10:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753781AbYAJSKj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:10:39 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:46636 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753458AbYAJSKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:10:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:13:15 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pekka J Enberg , Matt Mackall , Christoph Lameter , Ingo Molnar , Hugh Dickins , Andi Kleen , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation Message-ID: <20080110181315.GA1047@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1199419890.4608.77.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199641910.8215.28.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199906151.6245.57.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199919548.6245.74.camel@cinder.waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 12 > I would suggest that if you guys are really serious about memory use, try > to do a size-based heap thing, and do best-fit in that heap. Or just some iirc best fit usually also has some nasty long term fragmentation behaviour. That is why it is usually also not used. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/