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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: New slab allocator SLUB
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:36:20 +0200
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>
> i386:
>  Uses slab for pgd handling and modifies the page structs of those
>  Fix has been in Andrew's tree for awhile now.

Should be already upstream.


> I would expect that the experimental status of SLUB will be removed
> soon. SLUB then become the default slab allocator. It may not be the
> default when we release 2.6.22 but it is scheduled to be the default for
> 2.6.23.

Assuming you fix the performance regressions first?

-Andi