On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > No, this does not work. We've tried. > The problem is fragmentation. When all memory is occupied by slab, > it's already too late to reclaim memory. Free objects are randomly > scattered over memory, so if you have just 1% of live objects, the > chances are that you won't be able to reclaim any single page. Yes that is why slab objects *need* to be *movable*!!! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>