From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx194.postini.com [74.125.245.194]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ACEA6B002B for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:42:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator References: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:42:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Ezequiel Garcia's message of "Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:19:30 -0300") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Tim Bird , celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org Ezequiel Garcia writes: > Hello, > > 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. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org