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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> Not everyone is IA-64.  The slab allocator is already pretty memory 
> hungry so lets try not to make it any worse, ok?

We have a huge memory problem with reclain. This is only a small 
sacrifice. Moreover even on 32 bit platforms this will not be significant 
for most caches that are cache aligned.