Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: Remove the SLAB allocator

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Apr 12 2019 - 07:28:22 EST


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:53:34PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > FWIW, our enterprise kernel use it (latest is 4.12 based), and openSUSE
> > kernels as well (with openSUSE Tumbleweed that includes latest
> > kernel.org stables). AFAIK we don't enable SLAB_DEBUG even in general
> > debug kernel flavours as it's just too slow.
> >
> > IIRC last time Mel evaluated switching to SLUB, it wasn't a clear
> > winner, but I'll just CC him for details :)
> >
>
> We also use CONFIG_SLAB and disable CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG for the same reason.

Would it be possible to re-evaluate using mainline kernel 5.0?

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs