Re: 2.6.24-rc2: Network commit causes SLUB performance regressionwith tbench

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 14:44:41 EST


On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> BTW. your size-2048 kmalloc cache is order-1 in the default setup,
> wheras kmalloc(1024) or kmalloc(4096) will be order-0 allocations. And
> SLAB also uses order-0 for size-2048. It would be nice if SLUB did the
> same...

You can try to see the effect that order 0 would have by booting with

slub_max_order=0
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