Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 17:12:18 EST


On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Yet here we stand. Christoph is aggressively trying to get slab removed
> from the tree. There is a testcase which shows slub performing worse
> than slab. It's not my fault I can't publish it. And just because I
> can't publish it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
>
> Slab needs to not get removed until slub is as good a performer on this
> benchmark.

I agree with this .... SLAB will stay until we have worked through all the
performance issues.

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