Re: [rfc][patch] SLQB slab allocator

Pekka Enberg
2008-12-13T09:03:51Z

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> AFAICT this is the special case that matters in terms of the database
> test you are trying to improve. The case there is likely the result
> of bad cache unfriendly programming. You may actually improve the
> benchmark more if the cachelines would be kept hot there in the right
> way.

Lets not forget the order-0 page thing, which is nice from page
allocator fragmentation point of view. But I suppose SLUB can use them
as well if we get around fixing the page allocator fastpaths?