Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:42:23 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > G. Slab merging
> > > 
> > >    We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those
> > >    on bootup and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This
> > >    leads to more effective memory use.
> > 
> > Did you do any tests on what that does to long term memory fragmentation?
> > It is against the "object of same type have similar livetime and should
> > be clustered together" theory at least.
> 
> I have done no tests in that regard and we would have to assess the impact 
> that the merging has to overall system behavior.
> 
>From a viewpoint of a crash dump user, this merging will make crash dump
investigation very very very difficult.
So please avoid this merging if the benefit is nog big.

-Kame

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