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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] slub: reap free slabs periodically
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One reason for SLUBs creation was the 2 second scans in  SLAB which causes
significant disruption of latency sensitive tasksk.

You can simply implement a reaper in userspace by running

slabinfo -s

if you have to have this.


There is no need to duplicate SLAB problems.