Re: [PATCH] procfs: provide slub's /proc/slabinfo

Pekka J Enberg
2008-01-07T20:45:08Z

Hi Matt,

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Fascinating. Which kernel version are you using? This patch doesn't seem
> to have made it to mainline:
>
> ---
>
> slob: fix free block merging at head of subpage
>
> We weren't merging freed blocks at the beginning of the free list.
> Fixing this showed a 2.5% efficiency improvement in a userspace test
> harness.

Hmm, interesting, it definitely improves the best case (although not quite
on a par with SLUB) but makes worst case and average case significantly
worse (almost as bad as SLAB):

[ the minimum, maximum, and average are of captured from 10 individual runs ]

Free (kB) Used (kB)
Total (kB) min max average min max average
SLUB (no debug) 26536 23868 23892 23877.6 2644 2668 2658.4
SLOB 26548 23472 23640 23579.6 2908 3076 2968.4
SLOB (patched) 26548 23260 23728 23385.2 2820 3288 3162.8
SLAB (no debug) 26544 23316 23364 23343.2 3180 3228 3200.8
SLUB (with debug) 26484 23120 23136 23127.2 3348 3364 3356.8

Pekka