On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> I assume with "slab external fragmentation" you mean allocating a
> whole page for a slab when there are not enough objects to fill the
> whole thing thus wasting memory? We could try to combat that by
> packing multiple variable-sized slabs within a single page. Also,
> adding some non-power-of-two kmalloc caches might help with internal
> fragmentation.
Ther are already non-power-of-two kmalloc caches for 96 and 192 bytes
sizes.
>
> In any case, SLUB needs some serious tuning for smaller machines
> before we can get rid of SLOB.
Switch off CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to get memory savings.
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