Re: SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels

2015-08-27 Thread David Rientjes
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Navin Parakkal wrote: > Hi, > > I found that in many worst case scenarios like fragmention of > allocator , slub performs well than slab. > I also noticed that Centos /Ubuntu etc switched to SLUB but SLES > still uses SLAB in the default image. > > Any particular reason

Re: SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels

2015-08-27 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-08-27 10:26, Navin Parakkal wrote: Hi, I found that in many worst case scenarios like fragmention of allocator , slub performs well than slab. I also noticed that Centos /Ubuntu etc switched to SLUB but SLES still uses SLAB in the default image. Any particular reason where SLAB is