Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][v2] fork_init: fix division by zero | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:31:33 +1000 |
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On Friday 12 December 2008 07:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:28:00 +0000
> > Do they actually cross the page boundaries? > > Some flavours of slab have at times done an order-1 allocation for > objects which would fit into an order-0 page (etc) if it looks like > that will be beneficial from a packing POV. I'm unsure whether that > still happens - I tried to get it stamped out for reliability reasons.
Hmph, SLUB uses order-3 allocations for 832 byte sized objects by default here (mm struct).
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