Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > 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.
> 

SLUB is a non-starter for us and incurs a >10% performance degradation in 
netperf TCP_RR.
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