Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:32:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator
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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.

We use the partial list for that.

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