Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finishedmaking slub perform as well

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 12:36:50 EST


Jamie Lokier wrote:

> The different behaviours of SLAB/SLUB might result in different levels
> of fragmentation, so I wonder if anyone has compared them on MMU-less
> systems or fragmentation-sensitive workloads on general systems.

Never heard of such a comparison.

MMU less systems typically have a minimal number of processors. For that
configuration the page orders are roughly equivalent to slab. Larger orders
come into play with large amounts of processors.
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