Re: [rfc] SLQB: YASA

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 04:27:08 EST


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:17:39PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> > > Why is this not a patch set against SLUB?
> >
> > It's a completely different design of the core allocator algorithms
> > really.
> >
> > It probably looks quite similar because I started with slub.c, but
> > really is just the peripheral supporting code and structure. I'm never
> > intending to try to go through the pain of incrementally changing SLUB
> > into SLQB. If SLQB is found to be a good idea, then it could maybe get
> > merged.
>
> Do you have performance mesurement result?
> I hope see it if possible.
>
> Thanks! :)

Nothing really interesting, unfortunately. I have run some tests on
various microbenchmarks like tbench and things like that. But I
don't have many good ideas for more meaningful tests where slab
allocation performance is critial. Any suggestions? :)

Thanks,
Nick
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