On Wednesday 12 September 2007 06:19, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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.
I heard from one person at KS and one person here that it is not. If they're simply missing some patch that's in -mm, and there is no longer a SLUB vs SLAB regression when using equivalent page allocation order, then that's fine. - 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/
