On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:20:19 +0200 "Pekka Enberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \ > Now, while SLAB code is "pleasant and straightforward code" (thanks, > btw) for UMA, it's really hairy for NUMA plus the "alien caches" eat > tons of memory
.. and they make slab slower on numa systems for database workloads (I'm sure they do fine for SGI's customers HPC load though)) >(which is why Christoph wrote SLUB in the first place, > the current code in SLAB is mostly unfixable due to its *queuing* > nature). To be honest, a SLAB without the alien stuff might be one of the best performers today .... ;) (on database loads.. where slub is quite a disaster as everyone knows) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/
