On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> You keep on forcing the outside world to revolve around your needs
> within slub.c: that is a good way to keep slub lean, and may be
> justified; but it's at least questionable to be enforcing such
> restrictions years after people have grown accustomed to more
> freedom from their slabs.
This work is a cleanup of the VM code and part of the slab cleanup that
was done. Having slab objects on the LRU and other components of the VM
that are supposed to work on page sized objects is plainly wrong and can
lead to surprising results.
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