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Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)
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Hi Mel,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> Slightly later than hoped for, but here are the results of the profile
> run between the different slab allocators. It also includes information on
> the performance on SLUB with the allocator pass-thru logic reverted by commit
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=97a4871761e735b6f1acd3bc7c3bac30dae3eab9

Did you just cherry-pick the patch or did you run it with the
topic/slub/perf branch? There's a follow-up patch from Yanmin which
will make a difference for large allocations when page-allocator
pass-through is reverted:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=79b350ab63458ef1d11747b4f119baea96771a6e

                            Pekka