linux-kernel - Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:10:51 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:07 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:48 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Christoph has expressed concerns over latency issues of SLQB, I suppose
> > it would be interesting to hear if it makes any difference to the
> > real-time folks.
> 
> I'll 'soon' take a stab at converting SLQB for -rt. Currently -rt is
> SLAB only.
> 
> Then again, anything that does allocation is per definition not bounded
> and not something we can have on latency critical paths -- so on that
> respect its not interesting.

Before someone pipes up, _yes_ I do know about RT allocators and such.

No we don't do that in-kernel, other than through reservation mechanisms
like mempool -- and I'd rather extend that than try and get page reclaim
bounded.

Yes, I also know about folks doing RT paging, and no, I'm not wanting to
hear about that either ;-)

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