Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:54:53AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

So on balance, given that we _do_ expect slub to have a future, I'm
inclined to crash ahead with it.  The worst that can happen will be a later
rm mm/slub.c which would be pretty simple to do.

Okay.  And there's been no chorus to echo my concern.

I have been looking into "slub" recently to avoid some of the NUMA alien
cache issues that we were encountering on the regular slab.

I am having some stability issues with slub on an ia64 NUMA platform and
didn't have time to dig further. I am hoping to look into it soon
and share the data/findings with  Christoph.

We also did a quick perf collection on x86_64(atleast didn't hear
any stability issues from our team on regular x86_64 SMP), that we will be
sharing shortly.

But if Linus' tree is to be better than a warehouse to avoid
awkward merges, I still think we want it to default to on for
all the architectures, and for most if not all -rcs.

I will not suggest for default on at this point.

thanks,
suresh

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