Re: [patch] slub: default min_partial to at least highest cpus per node

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> The page allocator may be getting significantly faster, but that is _not_
> the only reason why we use partial slabs.  Higher order slabs, such as the
> default for kmalloc-2048, kmalloc-4096, etc., increase the liklihood of
> having cpu slabs at that order as opposed to order fallback with a
> sufficiently long uptime.

kmalloc-4096 will go away with a faster page allocator.

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