Re: [RFC V2 SLEB 00/14] The Enhanced(hopefully) Slab Allocator

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Nick,

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> As far as I can see, there was never a good reason to replace SLAB
> rather than clean up its code and make incremental improvements.

I'm not totally convinced but I guess we're about to find that out.
How do you propose we benchmark SLAB while we clean it up and change
things to make sure we don't make the same mistakes as we did with
SLUB (i.e. miss an important workload like TPC-C)?

                        Pekka
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