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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 22:50:54 +1100
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On Tuesday 03 February 2009 22:28:52 Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:36:24PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > I'd be interested to see how slub performs if booted with
> > slub_min_objects=1 (which should give similar order pages to SLAB and
> > SLQB).
>
> Just to clarify on this last point, do you mean slub_max_order=0 to
> force order-0 allocations in SLUB?

Hmm... I think slub_min_objects=1 should also do basically the same.
Actually slub_min_object=1 and slub_max_order=1 should get closest I
think.