From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:57:26 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka J Enberg Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23 In-Reply-To: <20070710120224.GP11115@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <20070708034952.022985379@sgi.com> <20070708035018.074510057@sgi.com> <20070708075119.GA16631@elte.hu> <20070708110224.9cd9df5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4691A415.6040208@yahoo.com.au> <84144f020707090404l657a62c7x89d7d06b3dd6c34b@mail.gmail.com> <469342DC.8070007@yahoo.com.au> <84144f020707100231p5013e1aer767562c26fc52eeb@mail.gmail.com> <20070710120224.GP11115@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matt Mackall Cc: Nick Piggin , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, corey.d.gough@intel.com, Denis Vlasenko , Erik Andersen List-ID: Hi Matt, On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: > Using 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 with a 64MB lguest and busybox, I'm seeing the > following as the best MemFree numbers after several boots each: > > SLAB: 54796 > SLOB: 55044 > SLUB: 53944 > SLUB: 54788 (debug turned off) > > These numbers bounce around a lot more from boot to boot than I > remember, so take these numbers with a grain of salt. To rule out userland, 2.6.22 with 32 MB defconfig UML and busybox [1] on i386: SLOB: 26708 SLUB: 27212 (no debug) Unfortunately UML is broken in 2.6.22-rc6-mm1, so I don't know if SLOB patches help there. 1. http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/BusyBox-1.5.0/BusyBox-1.5.0-x86-root_fs.bz2 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