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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished
 making slub perform as well
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:25:49 +0300
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Hi Matthew,

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

No, you don't have to. I haven't merged that patch nor do I intend to do 
so until the regressions are fixed.

And yes, I'm still waiting to hear from you how we're now doing with 
higher order page allocations...

		Pekka