Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 11 2012 - 18:42:30 EST


Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator,
> I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case:

iirc the main performance reasons for slab over slub have mostly
disappeared, so in theory slab could be finally deprecated now.

-Andi

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