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Message-ID: <20070223001653.GA16108@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:16:53 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:42:23AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems.
> >
> > This means constructors/destructors are becomming worthless?
> > Can you describe your rationale why you think they don't make
> > sense on UP?
>
> Cache reaping has nothing to do with constructors and destructors. SLUB
> fully supports constructors and destructors.
If you don't cache constructed but free objects then there is no cache
advantage of constructors/destructors and they would be useless.
-Andi
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