Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:01:29 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26 |
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:38:00 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > Thank you whoever wrote kmemcheck.txt > > > > How come slub uses one byte to track the status of each byte when > > it could use a single bit? > > > > We (still!) have not made the decision whether to proceed with slab > > or slub. How hard would it be to port kmemcheck into slab? > > i think slab is clearly out, unless some catastrophic regression is > found.
SLUB still has that several percent TPC-C regression.... Christoph has a small reproducer testcase.
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