On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > The impression I got at vm meeting was that SLUB was good to go :(
Its not? I have had Intel test this thoroughly and they assured me that it is up to SLAB. This particular case is an synthetic tests for a PAGE_SIZE alloc and SLUB was not optimized for that case because PAGE_SIZEd allocations should be handled by the page allocators. Quicklists were introduced for the explicit purpose to get these messy page sized cases out of the slab allocators. > But slab allocations don't really control the macro behaviour of a > benchmark like that so much. So don't wait until something happens > with the scheduler, fix it now. Ok so you are for pushing in the page allocator pass through patch from mm into rc6? Isnt it a bit late for such a change? I would think that 2.6.24 is early enough. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
