Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750785AbXBVKtR (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:49:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750789AbXBVKtQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:49:16 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:58327 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785AbXBVKtP (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:49:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=k2WJmf1v4lktZ4zzvBm6Vzw0bBGAonNCVgxYQxle5sD/9Jhq5P7qOorvAphcYFxPkVJGooIR0L5VWTjZ7NNQTUzr1MhxUXRO4wqLe78WdwH2Lb/XwjorT2c4asmi9hMVuoCxNP+sKQV0CG1zaRy1etpXL6VNNDQRNHqU9FR8AzA= Message-ID: <84144f020702220249k37306252q627bf3ceb28e8b5d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:49:11 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: e7a603a9940119bc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 26 Hi Christoph, On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the > existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns > with the existing implementation. So do you want to add a new allocator or replace slab? On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > B. Storage overhead of object queues Does this make sense for non-NUMA too? If not, can we disable the queues for NUMA in current slab? On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > C. SLAB metadata overhead Can be done for the current slab code too, no? Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/