Re: [GIT PULL] Lockless SLUB slowpaths for v3.1-rc1

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:55 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm very confident that slub could beat slab on any system if you throw
> enough memory at it because its fastpaths are extremely efficient, but
> there's no business case for that.

Btw, I haven't measured this recently but in my testing, SLAB has
pretty much always used more memory than SLUB. So 'throwing more
memory at the problem' is definitely a reasonable approach for SLUB.

                        Pekka
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