Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

Andi Kleen
2008-07-31T14:11:38Z

> Finally getting rid of SLAB is a much trickier proposition because SLUB
> still loses in a few important corner cases.

The big issue is that we haven't really made much progress on at least
some of these test cases (like the database benchmarks) for quite some
time (and that wasn't for a lack of trying) :-/ Might be a fundamental
problem.

-Andi