V1->V2: - Allocator will determine how to acquire the objects. Remove the flags that we exposed to the subsystems in V1. - Restructure patch a bit to minimize size - Add material provided by Jesper. Attached a series of 3 patches to implement functionality to allocate arrays of pointers to slab objects. This can be used by the slab allocators to offer more optimized allocation and free paths. Allocator performance issues were discovered by the network subsystem developers when trying to get the kernel to send at line rate to saturate a 40G link. Jesper developed special queueing methods to compensate for the performance issues. See the following material: LWN: Improving Linux networking performance - http://lwn.net/Articles/629155/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XG9-X777Jo LWN: Toward a more efficient slab allocator - http://lwn.net/Articles/629152/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lZzP1jOzI -- 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>