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Bob Liu authored
SLOB has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce overall external fragmentation and increase repeatability, free to their own list also. This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine: without this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 750012 kB Buffers: 15496 kB Cached: 160396 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 105024 kB Inactive: 145604 kB Active(anon): 74816 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 30208 kB Inactive(file): 143424 kB Unevictable: 16 kB .... with this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 751908 kB Buffers: 15492 kB Cached: 160280 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 102720 kB Inactive: 146140 kB Active(anon): 73168 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 29552 kB Inactive(file): 143960 kB Unevictable: 16 kB ... The result shows an improvement of 1 MB! And when I tested it on a embeded system with 64 MB, I found this path is never called during kernel bootup. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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