From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:47:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9a71clo.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608251451070.10766@east.gentwo.org> (Christoph Lameter's message of "Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:55:43 -0500 (CDT)")
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> writes:
>
>> If you want to rework the VM to use a larger fundamental unit, track
>> sub-units where required and deal with the internal fragmentation issues
>> then by all means go ahead and deal with it.
>
> Hmmm... The time problem is always there. Tried various approaches over
> the last decade. Could be a massive project. We really would need a
> larger group of developers to effectively do this.
I'm surprised that compactions is not able to fix the fragmentation.
Is the problem that there are too many non movable objects around?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-26 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-17 18:20 [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats Aruna Ramakrishna
2016-08-17 19:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-08-17 19:25 ` Aruna Ramakrishna
2016-08-18 11:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-19 5:47 ` aruna.ramakrishna
2016-08-23 2:13 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-08-23 15:38 ` what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB (was: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo) stats Michal Hocko
2016-08-23 15:54 ` what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB Andi Kleen
2016-08-25 4:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-08-25 7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-25 19:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-08-24 1:15 ` what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB (was: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo) stats Joonsoo Kim
2016-08-24 8:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-24 8:20 ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-25 4:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-08-25 10:07 ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-25 19:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-08-26 20:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-08-29 13:44 ` what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB Michal Hocko
2016-08-29 14:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-08-30 9:39 ` what is the purpose of SLAB and SLUB (was: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slab: Improve performance of gathering slabinfo) stats Mel Gorman
2016-08-30 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
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