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

[Pekka Enberg]

Rene Herman wrote:
> On 03-08-08 23:25, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > > Do we have to once again explain that slab still outperforms slub on at
> > > least one important benchmark?  I hope Nick Piggin finds time to finish
> > > tuning slqb; it already outperforms slub.
> >
> > No, you don't have to. I haven't merged that patch nor do I intend to 
> > do so until the regressions are fixed.
> >
> > And yes, I'm still waiting to hear from you how we're now doing with 
> > higher order page allocations...
>
> General interested question -- I recently "accidentally" read some of 
> slub and I believe that it doesn't feature the cache colouring support 
> that slab did? Is that true, and if so, wasn't it needed/useful?

I don't know why Christoph decided not to implement it. Christoph?
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