One reason for SLUBs creation was the 2 second scans in SLAB which causes significant disruption of latency sensitive tasksk. You can simply implement a reaper in userspace by running slabinfo -s if you have to have this. There is no need to duplicate SLAB problems. -- 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>