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On Tue, 8 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> Further, the received wisdom that fragmentation of SLAB-like systems
> is better is not above doubt. Our own issues with dcache fragmentation
> suggest it's far from perfect.

I guess that you have not seen the slab defrag code for SLUB then.