Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:58:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, slob: Rewrite SLOB using segregated free list |
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> But on the contrary, I wonder when SLOB is useful than SLUB. > is it for really tiny linux systems that has under 1M of RAM? > But can linux be that small?
SLOB I think is mainly a nice intro into how slab allocators work. It is a simple architecture and the code is to read and therefore easily understood. I heard of some use cases from others but I have only ever been able to run a kernel boot in KVM with SLOB.
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