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Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:28:16 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To:     David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: Remove the SLAB allocator
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:53:34PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > FWIW, our enterprise kernel use it (latest is 4.12 based), and openSUSE
> > kernels as well (with openSUSE Tumbleweed that includes latest
> > kernel.org stables). AFAIK we don't enable SLAB_DEBUG even in general
> > debug kernel flavours as it's just too slow.
> > 
> > IIRC last time Mel evaluated switching to SLUB, it wasn't a clear
> > winner, but I'll just CC him for details :)
> > 
> 
> We also use CONFIG_SLAB and disable CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG for the same reason.

Would it be possible to re-evaluate using mainline kernel 5.0?

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs