Re: [PATCH] slob: reduce list scanning

[Pekka Enberg]

On 7/16/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually SLOB potentially has some fundamental CPU cache hotness
> advantages over the other allocators, for the same reasons as
> its space advantages.

Because consecutive allocations hit the same cache-hot page regardless
of requested size where as SLUB by definition distributes allocations
to different pages (some of which may not be hot)?
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