Re: [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:45:35 +0100

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201291515480.1747-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> you wrote:
> it _looks_ like the way the radix_node is done, it will
> basically always be a factor-of-two+1 words, which sounds like the worst
> possible schenario from an allocator standpoint.

One advantage of the slab allocator is that if works efficiently with
odd object sizes..

Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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