From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
patches@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove all the slab allocators
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 16:15:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZChKgQ35wLEpcQ0i@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230401094658.11146-1-vbabka@suse.cz>
On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 11:46:58AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> As the SLOB removal is on track and the SLAB removal is planned, I have
> realized - why should we stop there and not remove also SLUB? What's a
> slab allocator good for in 2023? The RAM sizes are getting larger and
> the modules cheaper [1]. The object constructor trick was perhaps
> interesting in 1994, but not with contemporary CPUs. So all the slab
> allocator does today is just adding an unnecessary layer of complexity
> over the page allocator.
Acked-by: Poisson D'Avril (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-01 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-01 9:46 [PATCH] mm: remove all the slab allocators Vlastimil Babka
2023-04-01 10:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-04-01 10:25 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-04-01 11:33 ` Petr Tesařík
2023-04-01 11:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-04-01 15:15 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-04-01 18:33 ` David Laight
2023-04-01 18:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2023-04-01 22:04 ` David Laight
2023-04-02 5:09 ` Jeff Xie
2023-04-02 9:09 ` 郭辉
2023-04-02 11:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-04-03 3:51 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2023-04-03 4:04 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2023-04-03 4:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
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