On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Creating a dedicated cache for few objects ? Thats a lot of overhead, at > least for SLAB (no merges of caches) Its some overhead for SLAB (a lot is what? If you tune down the per cpu caches it should be a couple of pages) but its none for SLUB. Maybe we need to add the merge logic to SLAB? Or maybe we can extract a common higher handling level for kmem_cache from all slab allocators and make merging standard. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>