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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Indeed, but I guess there are a lot of such little optimizations here
> and there that could be relatively easily fixed, for a not-so little
> benefit.

Get on it :-) I hope the kmalloc_node stuff etc that was recently added is 
enough for most structur4es. Note that there is a new rev of the slab 
allocator in Andrew's tree that will make kmalloc_node as fast as kmalloc.