Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> > it provides lifo allocations from both partial and unused slabs.
> >
>
> lifo/fifo for unused slabs is obviously superflous - free is free, it
> doesn't matter which free page is used first/last.
You're full of crap.
LIFO is obviously superior due to cache re-use.
Linus
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