From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx168.postini.com [74.125.245.168]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4EBD6B002B for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:59:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rq2so2557580pbb.14 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:59:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [Q] Default SLAB allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ezequiel Garcia , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Tim Bird , celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Andi Kleen wrote: > > While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator, > > I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case: > > iirc the main performance reasons for slab over slub have mostly > disappeared, so in theory slab could be finally deprecated now. > SLUB is a non-starter for us and incurs a >10% performance degradation in netperf TCP_RR. -- 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