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SubjectRe: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote:

> > The general caches already merge lots of users depending on their sizes.
> > So we already have the situation and we have tools to deal with it.
>
> But this doesn't happen for things like biovecs, and that will
> make debugging painful.
>
> If a crash happens because of a corrupted biovec-256 I want to know
> it was a biovec not some anonymous clone of kmalloc256.
>
> Please provide at a minimum a way to turn the merging off.

Ok. Its currently a compile time option. Will make it possible to specify
a boot option.

> I also agree with Andi in that merging could mess up how object type
> local lifetimes help reduce fragmentation in object pools.

If that is a problem for particular object pools then we may be able to
except those from the merging.

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