Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] slub: don't fail kmem_cache_shrink if slab placement optimization fails

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> May be, we could remove this allocation at all then? I mean, always
> distribute slabs among constant number of buckets, say 32, like this:

The point of the sorting is to have the slab pages that only have a few
objects available at the beginning of the list. Allocations can then
easily reduce the size of hte partial page list.

What you could do is simply put all slab pages with more than 32 objects
available at the end of the list.
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