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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] Check write to slab memory which freed already using mudflap
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:03:19AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > Hey, I said SLAB is on its way out (yes, it really is). But I didn't say
> > we're going to blindly remove it if performs better than the
> > alternatives. I don't see any reason why SQLB can't reach the same
> > performance as SLAB after on fundamental level, though. Can you?
> >
>
> I'm not really interested in making predictions on which design has the
> greatest potential for pure performance, I'm interested in what is proven
> to work and does the job better than any alternative. Right now, for
> certain workloads, that's undeniably slab. So I'd disagree that slab is
> on its way out until another allocator is shown to at least have parity
> with it (at which time I'd become more interested in the cleanliness of
> the code, the debugging support, etc.).
>
> It's my opinion that slab is on its way out when there's no benchmark that
> shows it is superior by any significant amount. If that happens (and if
> its successor is slub, slqb, or a yet to be implemented allocator), we can
> probably start a discussion on what's in and what's out at that time.

How are you running your netperf test? Over localhost or remotely?
It is a 16 core system? NUMA?

It seems pretty variable when I run it here, although there seems
to be a pretty clear upper bound on performance, where a lot of the
results land around (then others go anywhere down to less than half
that performance).

Anyway, tried to get an idea of performance on my 8 core NUMA system,
over localhost, and just at 64 threads. Ran the test 60 times for
each allocator.

Rates for 2.6.31-rc2 (+slqb from Pekka's tree)
SLAB: 1869710
SLQB: 1859710
SLUB: 1769400

Slab did have slightly higher maximal numbers too, although slqb
SLQB had the highest minimum. But both were fairly similar there.
SLUB's minimum went down to around 13% lower than the others.

Now I didn't reboot or restart netperf server during runs, so there
is possibility of results drifting for some reason (eg. due to
cache/node placment).

I can't say SLQB beats SLAB here, but it's fairly good. I'll see
if any tweaks can improve it further...



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