"slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phoronix at 24 Sept, 10:10 UTC

In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with…