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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 1e2f4fe12773..f76e956b4011 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ struct kmem_cache { #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB /* - * SLUB allocates up to order 2 pages directly and otherwise - * passes the request to the page allocator. + * SLUB directly allocates requests fitting in to an order-1 page + * (PAGE_SIZE*2). Larger requests are passed to the page allocator. */ #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH (PAGE_SHIFT + 1) #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) @@ -217,12 +217,12 @@ struct kmem_cache { #ifdef CONFIG_SLOB /* - * SLOB passes all page size and larger requests to the page allocator. + * SLOB passes all requests larger than one page to the page allocator. * No kmalloc array is necessary since objects of different sizes can * be allocated from the same page. */ -#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX 30 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH PAGE_SHIFT +#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX 30 #ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW 3 #endif |