From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: Remove the SLAB allocator
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:52:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416205212.5cb286fbeec801f50269b2b5@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190412112816.GD18914@techsingularity.net>
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:28:16 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
> 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?
I have vague memories that slab outperforms slub for some networking
loads. Could the net folks please comment?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 2:47 Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-10 2:47 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: Remove " Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-10 8:02 ` [PATCH 0/1] mm: Remove the " Vlastimil Babka
2019-04-10 8:16 ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-11 7:55 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-11 8:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2019-04-17 8:50 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-04-17 13:27 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-04-17 13:38 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-22 14:43 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-04-11 8:44 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-10 21:53 ` David Rientjes
2019-04-12 11:28 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-17 3:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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