| Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:04:20 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/23] Slab defragmentation V6 |
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:11 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Slab defragmentation > > I thought we had agreed that: targeted reclaim, was a more suitable term > for this work as it does not do compaction.
It does compaction by removing less populated slabs. If a kick method reallocates the object instead of reclaiming it then this patchset fully support compaction. Its just that the kick methods are simplistic at this point.
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