Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755929AbYGaOLi (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:11:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753426AbYGaOL3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:11:29 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53468 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752816AbYGaOL3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:11:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:11:34 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Matt Mackall Cc: Linus Torvalds , Pekka J Enberg , Christoph Lameter , Ingo Molnar , Hugh Dickins , Andi Kleen , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , vegard.nossum@gmail.com, hannes@saeurebad.de Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation Message-ID: <20080731141134.GP23938@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1199906151.6245.57.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199919548.6245.74.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1217466583.18911.226.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1217466583.18911.226.camel@calx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 14 > Finally getting rid of SLAB is a much trickier proposition because SLUB > still loses in a few important corner cases. The big issue is that we haven't really made much progress on at least some of these test cases (like the database benchmarks) for quite some time (and that wasn't for a lack of trying) :-/ Might be a fundamental problem. -Andi -- 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/