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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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        "Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 04:28:51 +0200
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On September 9, 2001 05:18 pm, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> lifo/fifo for unused slabs is obviously superflous - free is free, it
> doesn't matter which free page is used first/last.

Welll... there is a some difference with respect to the buddy allocator and 
fragmentation.  <--- nit

--
Daniel