Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:22:56 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well |
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Rene Herman wrote: > 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?
I don't know why Christoph decided not to implement it. Christoph?
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