Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 16:12:56 EST


On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:03 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Merge SLQB and rm mm/sl[ua]b.c include/linux/sl[ua]b.h for .33-rc1
> >
>
> slqb still has a 5-10% performance regression compared to slab for
> benchmarks such as netperf TCP_RR on machines with high cpu counts,
> forcing that type of regression isn't acceptable.

Having _4_ slab allocators is equally unacceptable.

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