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On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Specjbb? What does Java have to do with this?
> Can you run the synthetic in kernel slab benchmark.
> 
> Like this one https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/13/459
> 

We actually carry that in our production kernel and have updated it to 
build on 3.11, I'll run it and netperf TCP_RR as well, thanks.

> However, SLAB is still the allocator in use for RHEL which puts some
> importance on still supporting SLAB.
> 

Google also uses it exclusively so I'm definitely not saying that since 
it's not default that we can ignore it.  I haven't seen any performance 
regression in removing it, but I'll post the numbers on the slab benchmark 
and netperf TCP_RR when I have them.