On Thu, 12 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > However, the fact remains that this seems to be a slub problem and it > needs fixing. Why are you so fixed on slub in these matters? Its an key component but there is a high interaction with other subsystems. There was no recent change in slub that changed the order of allocations. There were changes affecting the reclaim logic. Slub has been working just fine with the existing allocation schemes for a long time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html