From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so70651uge for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:49:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84144f020702220249k37306252q627bf3ceb28e8b5d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:49:11 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi Christoph, On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the > existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns > with the existing implementation. So do you want to add a new allocator or replace slab? On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > B. Storage overhead of object queues Does this make sense for non-NUMA too? If not, can we disable the queues for NUMA in current slab? On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > C. SLAB metadata overhead Can be done for the current slab code too, no? Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org