Re: [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 1. shrink_slab takes a function to move object. Using that
> >    function slabs can be defragmented to ease slab reclaim.
> 
> Does that help with the inefficient dcache/icache pruning? 

There was a fair amount of debate on this at the VM summit.

The approach we thought was most promising started with splitting the
dcache into directory and leaf entries.

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