Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator
From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 05:49:34 EST
Hi Christoph,
On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the
existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns
with the existing implementation.
So do you want to add a new allocator or replace slab?
On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
B. Storage overhead of object queues
Does this make sense for non-NUMA too? If not, can we disable the
queues for NUMA in current slab?
On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
C. SLAB metadata overhead
Can be done for the current slab code too, no?
Pekka
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