On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > May be, we could remove this allocation at all then? I mean, always > distribute slabs among constant number of buckets, say 32, like this: The point of the sorting is to have the slab pages that only have a few objects available at the beginning of the list. Allocations can then easily reduce the size of hte partial page list. What you could do is simply put all slab pages with more than 32 objects available at the end of the list. -- 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>