Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:37:33 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well |
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On 03-08-08 23:25, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> Do we have to once again explain that slab still outperforms slub on at >> least one important benchmark? I hope Nick Piggin finds time to finish >> tuning slqb; it already outperforms slub. > > No, you don't have to. I haven't merged that patch nor do I intend to do > so until the regressions are fixed. > > And yes, I'm still waiting to hear from you how we're now doing with > higher order page allocations...
General interested question -- I recently "accidentally" read some of slub and I believe that it doesn't feature the cache colouring support that slab did? Is that true, and if so, wasn't it needed/useful?
Rene.
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