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Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > 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.

slub_max_order=0 would be sufficient.