Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, slub: count freed pages via rcu as this task'sreclaimed_slab

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 11:15:32 EST


On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Simon Jeons wrote:

> It seems that I need to simple my question.
> All pages which order >=1 are compound pages?

In the slub allocator that is true.

One can request and free a series of contiguous pages that are not
compound pages from the page allocator and a couple of subsystems use
those.

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