On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:29:03AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > Especially when you use something like SLUB as the memory allocator > > > which requires higher order allocations for objects which are pinned > > > in kernel memory. > > > > I guess we'd need to merge the SLUB defragmentation patches to fix that? > > 1. SLUB does not require higher order allocations. The problem is not that it requires higher order allocations. The problem is that it uses them. It is not a failing higher order allocation attempt in SLUB that we're worried about here. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>