Re: SLAB vs. SLUB

2018-02-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 08:12 +, Frank Chung wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the great work. Just to comment that switching to SLUB seems to > partially address Bug#861964: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861964 > > Perhaps a comment on that bug is in order, if not closing it

Re: SLAB vs. SLUB

2018-02-22 Thread Frank Chung
Hello, Thanks for the great work. Just to comment that switching to SLUB seems to partially address Bug#861964: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861964 Perhaps a comment on that bug is in order, if not closing it outright? Regards, Frank Chung

Re: SLAB vs. SLUB

2018-01-23 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:37:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:18 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Not sure when this came up the last time. However we seem to be the > > last large distribution to use SLAB as the kernel allocator. > > Don't we want to change that som

Re: SLAB vs. SLUB

2018-01-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:18 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Moin > > Not sure when this came up the last time. However we seem to be the > last large distribution to use SLAB as the kernel allocator. > > Don't we want to change that some time? Yes, let's change to SLUB. I think SLUB_DEBUG and SL

SLAB vs. SLUB

2018-01-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Moin Not sure when this came up the last time. However we seem to be the last large distribution to use SLAB as the kernel allocator. Don't we want to change that some time? Bastian -- Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. -- Kirk, "Obsession",