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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
That's incidentally exactly what the slab does, no need to reinvent
the wheel for that, it's an old problem and there's room for
optimization in the slab partial-reuse logic too. Just boost the order
0 page size and use the slab to get the 4k chunks. The sgi/defrag
design is backwards.
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