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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:42:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27gqwtyu9.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALF0-+XGn5=QSE0bpa4RTag9CAJ63MKz1kvaYbpw34qUhViaZA@mail.gmail.com> (Ezequiel Garcia's message of "Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:19:30 -0300")

Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator,
> I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case:

iirc the main performance reasons for slab over slub have mostly
disappeared, so in theory slab could be finally deprecated now.

-Andi

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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:42:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27gqwtyu9.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALF0-+XGn5=QSE0bpa4RTag9CAJ63MKz1kvaYbpw34qUhViaZA@mail.gmail.com> (Ezequiel Garcia's message of "Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:19:30 -0300")

Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator,
> I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case:

iirc the main performance reasons for slab over slub have mostly
disappeared, so in theory slab could be finally deprecated now.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-11 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11 14:19 [Q] Default SLAB allocator Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-11 14:19 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-11 22:42 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-10-11 22:42   ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-11 22:59   ` David Rientjes
2012-10-11 22:59     ` David Rientjes
2012-10-11 23:10     ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-11 23:10       ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-12 12:07       ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-12 12:07         ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-13  9:54         ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13  9:54           ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13 12:44           ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-13 12:44             ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16  0:46             ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16  0:46               ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 12:35               ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 12:35                 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 12:56                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 12:56                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 18:07                   ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:07                     ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:27                     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:27                       ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:44                       ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:44                         ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:49                         ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:49                           ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 19:16                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 19:16                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-17 18:45                         ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 18:45                           ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 19:13                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-17 19:13                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-17 19:20                             ` Shentino
2012-10-17 19:20                               ` Shentino
2012-10-17 20:33                               ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 20:33                                 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-18  0:46                                 ` Shentino
2012-10-18  0:46                                   ` Shentino
2012-10-17 20:58                             ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 20:58                               ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 21:05                               ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-17 21:05                                 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:36                     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:36                       ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:54                       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-16 18:54                         ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-13  9:51       ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13  9:51         ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13 15:10         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-13 15:10           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16  1:28           ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-16  1:28             ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-16  7:23             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16  7:23               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-19  0:03           ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-19  0:03             ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-19  7:01             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-19  7:01               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16  0:45         ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16  0:45           ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 18:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-16 18:53             ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-16 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-16 19:02   ` Christoph Lameter

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