Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:24:36 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Given that SLAB and SLUB are fairly mature, I wonder what you'd think of
> taking SLQB into -mm and making it the default there for a while, to see
> if anybody reports a problem?

Nobody would test it in interesting ways.

We'd get more testing in linux-next, but still not enough, and not of
the right type.

It would be better to just make the desision, merge it and forge ahead.

Me, I'd be 100% behind the idea if it had a credible prospect of a net
reduction in the number of slab allocator implementations.

I guess the naming convention will limit us to 26 of them.  Fortunate
indeed that the kernel isn't written in cyrillic!


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