Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

Pekka Enberg
2007-02-22T10:49:17Z

Hi Christoph,

On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the
> existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns
> with the existing implementation.

So do you want to add a new allocator or replace slab?

On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> B. Storage overhead of object queues

Does this make sense for non-NUMA too? If not, can we disable the
queues for NUMA in current slab?

On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> C. SLAB metadata overhead

Can be done for the current slab code too, no?

Pekka