Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 11:28:38 EST


On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Btw, Yanmin, do you have access to the tests Mel is running (especially the
> ones where slub-rvrt seems to do worse)? Can you see this kind of regression?
> The results make we wonder whether we should avoid reverting all of the page
> allocator pass-through and just add a kmalloc cache for 8K allocations. Or not
> address the netperf regression at all. Double-hmm.


Going to 8k for the limit beyond we pass through to the page allocator may
be the simplest and best solution. Someone please work on the page
allocator...

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