On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Solid? What is not solid? The SLUB design was made in part because of the > defrag problems that were not easy to solve with SLAB. The ability to lock > down a slab allows stabilizing objects. We discussed solutions to the > fragmentation problem for years and did not get anywhere with SLAB. I'd assume he's talking about the Intel-reported regression that's yet to be resolved. -- 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