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Bob Liu d602dabaeb SLOB: Free objects to their own list 
SLOB has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce overall external
fragmentation and increase repeatability, free to their own list also.

This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine:

  without this patch:
  ===
  MemTotal:        1030720 kB
  MemFree:          750012 kB
  Buffers:           15496 kB
  Cached:           160396 kB
  SwapCached:            0 kB
  Active:           105024 kB
  Inactive:         145604 kB
  Active(anon):      74816 kB
  Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
  Active(file):      30208 kB
  Inactive(file):   143424 kB
  Unevictable:          16 kB
  ....

  with this patch:
  ===
  MemTotal:        1030720 kB
  MemFree:          751908 kB
  Buffers:           15492 kB
  Cached:           160280 kB
  SwapCached:            0 kB
  Active:           102720 kB
  Inactive:         146140 kB
  Active(anon):      73168 kB
  Inactive(anon):     2180 kB
  Active(file):      29552 kB
  Inactive(file):   143960 kB
  Unevictable:          16 kB
  ...

The result shows an improvement of 1 MB!

And when I tested it on a embeded system with 64 MB, I found this path is never
called during kernel bootup.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-16 11:03:20 +03:00
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backing-dev.c writeback: simplify the write back thread queue 2010-07-06 08:59:53 +02:00
bootmem.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip 2010-04-07 11:02:23 -07:00
bounce.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
fremap.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c highmem: remove unneeded #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT for debug_kmap_atomic() 2010-05-25 08:07:01 -07:00
hugetlb.c cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems 2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig mm: allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ksm.c mm: migration: share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile mm: compaction: memory compaction core 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix wake up in oom wait queue 2010-06-29 15:29:30 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone 2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
memory-failure.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
memory.c mm: document follow_page() 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol 2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c memcg: fix mis-accounting of file mapped racy with migration 2010-05-27 09:12:44 -07:00
mincore.c mincore: do nested page table walks 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmap: check ->vm_ops before dereferencing 2010-04-27 08:26:51 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices 2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg: make oom killer a no-op when no killable task can be found 2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
page_alloc.c numa: introduce numa_mem_id()- effective local memory node id 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: avoid use cmpxchg in swap cgroup maintainance 2010-03-17 18:43:47 -07:00
page_io.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: remove writeback_inodes_wbc 2010-07-06 08:54:03 +02:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu_up.c percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c percpu: fix first chunk match in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() 2010-06-18 15:07:23 +02:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
shmem.c fix truncate inode time modification breakage 2010-06-04 17:16:30 -04:00
slab.c numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
slob.c SLOB: Free objects to their own list 2010-07-16 11:03:20 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slub/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-05-30 12:46:17 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too 2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules 2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6 2010-05-21 15:26:46 -07:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c fs: introduce new truncate sequence 2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
util.c slab: Generify kernel pointer validation 2010-04-09 10:09:50 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: purge fragmented percpu vmap blocks 2010-02-02 12:50:47 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() return value when priority==0 reclaim failure 2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation fails 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00