Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:35:11 -0500 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well |
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> The different behaviours of SLAB/SLUB might result in different levels > of fragmentation, so I wonder if anyone has compared them on MMU-less > systems or fragmentation-sensitive workloads on general systems.
Never heard of such a comparison.
MMU less systems typically have a minimal number of processors. For that configuration the page orders are roughly equivalent to slab. Larger orders come into play with large amounts of processors.
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