On Thu, 10 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph, can we please take a look at /proc/slabinfo and its slub
> equivalent (I forget what that is?) and review any and all changes to the
> underlying allocation size for each cache?
>
> Because this is *not* something we should change lightly.
It was changed specially for mm in order to stress the antifrag code. If
this causes trouble then do not merge the patches against SLUB that
exploit the antifrag methods. This failure should help see how effective
Mel's antifrag patches are. He needs to get on this dicussion.
Upstream has slub_max_order=1.
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