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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] fork_init: fix division by zero
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:31:33 +1000
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On Friday 12 December 2008 07:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:28:00 +0000

> >  Do they actually cross the page boundaries?
>
> Some flavours of slab have at times done an order-1 allocation for
> objects which would fit into an order-0 page (etc) if it looks like
> that will be beneficial from a packing POV.  I'm unsure whether that
> still happens - I tried to get it stamped out for reliability reasons.

Hmph, SLUB uses order-3 allocations for 832 byte sized objects
by default here (mm struct).
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