from a first glance I can't tell any significant difference, apart from user_namespace which is like doubled for 6.7 ; but some values like inode_cache or dentry are higher in 6.6 than 6.7 . I attached the content of both measurement if you want to take a look. $ grep user_namespace slabinfo_6.* slabinfo_6.6.txt:user_namespace 13 13 624 13 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 slabinfo_6.7.txt:user_namespace 25 25 632 25 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0