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Subject: Re: [SLUB 2/3] Large kmalloc pass through. Removal of large general
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> I've been meaning to do this in SLOB as well. Perhaps it warrants
> doing in stock kmalloc? I've got a grand total of 18 of these objects
> here.

The number increases with the number numa nodes. We have had trouble with
the maximum kmalloc size before and this will get rid of it for good.