linux-kernel - Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB

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Message-ID: <20071004210518.GR12049@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:05:18 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	willy@...ux.intel.com, clameter@....com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	hch@....de, mel@...net.ie, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dgc@....com, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:55:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Anything, I do mean anything, can be simulated using small test
> programs.  Pointing at a big fancy machine with lots of storage
> and disk is a passive aggressive way to avoid the real issues,
> in that nobody is putting forth the effort to try and come up
> with an at least publishable test case that Christoph can use to
> help you guys.
> 
> If coming up with a reproducable and publishable test case is
> the difference between this getting fixed and it not getting
> fixed, are you going to invest the time to do that?

If that's what it takes, then yes.  But I'm far from convinced that
it's as easy to come up with a TPC benchmark simulator as you think.
There have been efforts in the past (orasim, for example), but
presumably Christoph has already tried these benchmarks.

-- 
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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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