On Monday 02 January 2006 09:37, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 12/28/05, Andreas Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I remember the original slab paper from Bonwick actually mentioned that
> > power of two slabs are the worst choice for a malloc - but for some reason Linux
> > chose them anyways.
>
> Power of two sizes are bad because memory accesses tend to concentrate
> on the same cache lines but slab coloring should take care of that. So
> I don't think there's a problem with using power of twos for kmalloc()
> caches.
There is - who tells you it's the best possible distribution of memory?
-Andi
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