Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755877Ab2JPSyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:54:46 -0400 Received: from a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.193.30]:43762 "EHLO a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755681Ab2JPSyp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:54:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:54:44 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Ezequiel Garcia cc: Tim Bird , Eric Dumazet , David Rientjes , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org" Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0000013a6aed8d12-71a82caf-366a-425c-a963-79077f62d673-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1350392160.3954.986.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <507DA245.9050709@am.sony.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.193.30 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 14 On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > It might be worth reminding that very small systems can use SLOB > allocator, which does not suffer from this kind of fragmentation. Well, I have never seen non experimental systems that use SLOB. Others have claimed they exist. -- 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/