Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:47:12 +0100 (BST)


> > doesn't matter which free page is used first/last.
>
> You're full of crap.
> LIFO is obviously superior due to cache re-use.

Interersting question however. On SMP without sufficient per CPU slab caches
is tht still the case ?
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