On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > actually, one real advantage of the SLOB is that it is a minimal, really > simple allocator. Its text and data size is so small as well. > > here's the size comparison: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 10788 837 16 11641 2d79 mm/slab.o > 6205 4207 124 10536 2928 mm/slub.o > 1640 44 4 1688 698 mm/slob.o > > slab/slub have roughly the same footprint, but slob is 10% of that size. > Would be a waste to throw this away.
The last of my tests showed that SLOB is at about 50% of the size of SLUB. You need to compile SLUB in embedded mode with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to get a reduce code size. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/