Re: CONFIG_SLAB=y in 3.2 kernel

2012-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 14:38 -0400, Erik Lattimore wrote: > Hi, I'm examining the 3.2 backported kernel for Squeeze and am > wondering why the move away from CONFIG_SLUB (in 2.6.32) and > CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to using CONFIG_SLAB in the 3.2 kernels. I thought > the SLUB allocator was preferred with bet

CONFIG_SLAB=y in 3.2 kernel

2012-03-28 Thread Erik Lattimore
Hi, I'm examining the 3.2 backported kernel for Squeeze and am wondering why the move away from CONFIG_SLUB (in 2.6.32) and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to using CONFIG_SLAB in the 3.2 kernels. I thought the SLUB allocator was preferred with better debugging and supposed better performance. Is this no long