Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:

> How much of a gain is the merging anyway?  Once you start having
> explicit whitelists or blacklists of pools that can be merged, one can
> start to wonder if the result is worth the effort.

It eliminates 50% of the slab caches. Thus it reduces the management 
overhead by half.