linux-kernel - Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

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Message-ID: <84144f020702220249k37306252q627bf3ceb28e8b5d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:49:11 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

Hi Christoph,

On 2/22/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> 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 <clameter@....com> 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 <clameter@....com> wrote:
> C. SLAB metadata overhead

Can be done for the current slab code too, no?

                                                 Pekka
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