Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:58:48 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well |
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On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:21:01PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > - Add a patch that obsoletes SLAB and explains why SLOB does not support > defrag (Either of those could be theoretically equipped to support > slab defrag in some way but it seems that Andrew/Linus want to reduce > the number of slab allocators).
Do we have to once again explain that slab still outperforms slub on at least one important benchmark? I hope Nick Piggin finds time to finish tuning slqb; it already outperforms slub.
-- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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