On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:22:13 -0700
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> wrote:
> >
> > The slub allocator have a faster "fastpath", if your workload is
> > fast-reusing within the same per-cpu page-slab, but once the workload
> > increases you hit the s
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
wrote:
>
> The slub allocator have a faster "fastpath", if your workload is
> fast-reusing within the same per-cpu page-slab, but once the workload
> increases you hit the slowpath, and then slab catches up. Slub looks
> great in micro-benchma
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:51:09 -0700 Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >
> > The double standard is the problem here. No notification, proof,
> > discussion or review was needed to turn on slab merging for
> > everyone, but you're setting a very high ba
