On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > In SLAB, OFF_SLAB caches allocate management structures (currently just the > freelist) from kmalloc caches when placement in a slab page together with > objects would lead to suboptimal memory usage. For SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT caches, > we can allocate the freelists from the newly introduced reclaimable kmalloc > caches, because shrinking the OFF_SLAB cache will in general result to freeing > of the freelists as well. This should improve accounting and anti-fragmentation > a bit. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
