Ingo, Due to email problems, I never got your reply on this thread. But I saw your reply when reading this thread on lkml.org (nor did I receive Linus's first reply).
Anyway, I booted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 with the same config, and accepted the defaults to the new config options as the git version I checked. And it gave me an average of 12.5 second runs. Here's the oprofile for it: http://people.redhat.com/srostedt/slub/results/slub-mm.op -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

