Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753135AbYJWN7X (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752107AbYJWN7B (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:59:01 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:57955 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752505AbYJWN67 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:58:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=grp+atvqE9Vr7wWAGHbaSwpsjrGhRq4rX0D2j9R/logrGtJgdB2Q0uswcF6QGuVj9A XuZirwrKsRqWkKkyztal3XNXS9RVuL0U+CcxhsFBl0OO6LBMw3cTRuCXlz2qJu61w7d+ cImBWKxFmMy2qCmoS5lobsWxuPHO+GpY3cJsU= Message-ID: <84144f020810230658o7c6b3651k2d671aab09aa71fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:58:53 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request? Cc: "Miklos Szeredi" , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1223883004.31587.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <84144f020810221348j536f0d84vca039ff32676e2cc@mail.gmail.com> <1224745831.25814.21.camel@penberg-laptop> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4646e9f69bf85ff2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 14 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Solid? What is not solid? The SLUB design was made in part because of the > defrag problems that were not easy to solve with SLAB. The ability to lock > down a slab allows stabilizing objects. We discussed solutions to the > fragmentation problem for years and did not get anywhere with SLAB. I'd assume he's talking about the Intel-reported regression that's yet to be resolved. -- 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/