Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > Is this safe to think about applying yet? Its safe. By default kernels will be build with SLAB. SLUB becomes only a selectable alternative. It should not become the primary slab until we know that its really superior overall and have thoroughly

Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Is this safe to think about applying yet? We lost the leak detector feature. It might be nice to create synonyms for PageActive, PageReferenced and PageError, to make things clearer in the slub core. At the expense of making things less clear globally. Am unsure. - To unsubscribe from this

[SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
[PATCH] SLUB The unqueued slab allocator v4 V4->V5: - Single object slabs only for slabs > slub_max_order otherwise generate sufficient objects to avoid frequent use of the page allocator. This is necessary to compensate for fragmentation caused by frequent uses of the page allocator. We

[SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
[PATCH] SLUB The unqueued slab allocator v4 V4-V5: - Single object slabs only for slabs slub_max_order otherwise generate sufficient objects to avoid frequent use of the page allocator. This is necessary to compensate for fragmentation caused by frequent uses of the page allocator. We

Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Is this safe to think about applying yet? We lost the leak detector feature. It might be nice to create synonyms for PageActive, PageReferenced and PageError, to make things clearer in the slub core. At the expense of making things less clear globally. Am unsure. - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V5

2007-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Is this safe to think about applying yet? Its safe. By default kernels will be build with SLAB. SLUB becomes only a selectable alternative. It should not become the primary slab until we know that its really superior overall and have thoroughly tested