Jamie Lokier wrote: > Vaguely on this topic, has anyone studied the effects of SLAB/SLUB > etc. on MMUless systems? The reason is that MMU-less systems are extremely sensitive to fragmentation. Every program started on those systems must allocate a large contiguous block for the code and data, and every malloc >1 page is the same. If memory is too fragmented, starting new programs fails. The high-order page-allocator defragmentation lately should help with that. The different behaviours of SLAB/SLUB might result in different levels of fragmentation, so I wonder if anyone has compared them on MMU-less systems or fragmentation-sensitive workloads on general systems. Thanks, -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
