From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
"Nick Piggin" <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:12:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804182112.40732.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020804170342x7d692e83x2b50ebbccfc4c40b@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 17 April 2008 20:42, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > > We (still!) have not made the decision whether to proceed with slab or
> > > slub. How hard would it be to port kmemcheck into slab?
> >
> > i think slab is clearly out, unless some catastrophic regression is
> > found. But Nick's SLQB might replace SLUB ;-)
>
> Hey, we all have our favorite replacements for kmalloc():
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/patches/binalloc/2.6.
>25-rc8/kmalloc-binning
>
> But it seems unrealistic to expect any of them to replace SLUB or SLAB
> in the near future.
Obviously that one won't because it is totally unsuitable to replace
SLAB. It may be a good choice to replace SLOB (if it is found to be
technically better). Just the same as SLQB might replace SLAB if it
is found to be technically better. That's (one main criteria for) how
we merge/decide between things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 20:23 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 20:37 ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-16 22:18 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-04-16 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-17 10:06 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-17 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-17 13:33 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-18 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-18 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-17 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 7:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-17 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 8:32 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-17 8:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-17 8:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-17 11:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 18:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 18:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 20:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-18 9:33 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2008-04-18 9:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 8:57 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-17 10:32 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-17 10:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-17 17:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 8:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 8:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 8:45 ` David Miller
2008-04-17 8:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 8:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 9:19 ` David Miller
2008-04-17 9:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 9:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 9:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 10:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 10:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-17 10:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-17 10:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-17 10:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 10:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-18 11:12 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-04-17 14:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-17 15:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-18 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 10:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-17 18:47 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-04-17 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-17 19:39 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-04-17 19:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 20:39 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-04-17 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 9:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 7:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18 6:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18 6:38 ` David Miller
2008-04-18 7:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-18 8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18 8:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-18 8:18 ` David Miller
2008-04-18 12:48 ` Ingo Molnar
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