From: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:07:04 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALF0-+WLZWtwYY4taYW9D7j-abCJeY90JzcTQ2hGK64ftWsdxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2391ktxjj.fsf@firstfloor.org>
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>
>> SLUB is a non-starter for us and incurs a >10% performance degradation in
>> netperf TCP_RR.
>
Where are you seeing that?
Notice that many defconfigs are for embedded devices,
and many of them say "use SLAB"; I wonder if that's right.
Is there any intention to replace SLAB by SLUB?
In that case it could make sense to change defconfigs, although
it wouldn't be based on any actual tests.
Ezequiel
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 14:19 [Q] Default SLAB allocator Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-11 22:42 ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-11 22:59 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-11 23:10 ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-12 12:07 ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2012-10-13 9:54 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13 12:44 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 0:46 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 12:35 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 12:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 18:07 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:27 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:44 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-16 18:49 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 19:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-17 18:45 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 19:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-17 19:20 ` Shentino
2012-10-17 20:33 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-18 0:46 ` Shentino
2012-10-17 20:58 ` Tim Bird
2012-10-17 21:05 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:36 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-16 18:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-13 9:51 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-13 15:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 1:28 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-16 7:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-19 0:03 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-19 7:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-16 0:45 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-16 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
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