Re: [rfc] SLQB: YASA

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:57:25AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:45:44AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> > >  I'm not quite sure what to do with this. If anybody could test or comment,
> > >  I guess that would be a good start :)
> > 
> > Why is this not a patch set against SLUB?
> 
> It's a completely different design of the core allocator algorithms
> really.
> 
> It probably looks quite similar because I started with slub.c, but
> really is just the peripheral supporting code and structure. I'm never
> intending to try to go through the pain of incrementally changing SLUB
> into SLQB. If SLQB is found to be a good idea, then it could maybe get
> merged.

And also I guess I don't think Christoph would be very happy about
it :) He loves higher order allocations :)

The high level choices are pretty clear and I simply think there might
be a better way to do it. I'm not saying it *is* better because I simply
don't know, and there are areas where the tradeoffs I've made means that
in some situations SLQB cannot match SLUB.