Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:37:45 +0200
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > That is, a list of pages that could be returned to the page allocator
> > but are pooled in SLUB to avoid the page allocator overhead. Note that
> > this will not help allocators that trigger page allocator pass-through.

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:32 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We use the partial list for that.

Even if the slab is totally empty?

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