On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:52 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> Hi Bob, >>> >>> [ Please CC me on SLOB patches. You can use the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' >>> script to figure out automatically who to CC on your patches. ] >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > slob has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce >>> > overall external fragmentation and increase repeatability, >>> > free to their own list also. >>> > >>> > Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> The patch looks sane to me. Matt, does it look OK to you as well? >> >> Yep, this should be a marginal improvement. >> >> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Great! Bob, if you could provide the /proc/meminfo numbers for the > patch description, I'd be more than happy to merge this. > Hi, Pekka Sorry for the wrong cc and later reply. This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine: without this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 750012 kB Buffers: 15496 kB Cached: 160396 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 105024 kB Inactive: 145604 kB Active(anon): 74816 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 30208 kB Inactive(file): 143424 kB Unevictable: 16 kB .... with this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 751908 kB Buffers: 15492 kB Cached: 160280 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 102720 kB Inactive: 146140 kB Active(anon): 73168 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 29552 kB Inactive(file): 143960 kB Unevictable: 16 kB ... The result show only very small improverment! And when i tested it on a embeded system with 64MB, I found this path is never called while kernel booting. Thanks for the kindly review. -- Regards, --Bob -- 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