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

From David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels
Date 2015-08-27 23:10 +0200
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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 where SLAB is the choice ?
> 

Slab doesn't have a reliance on high-order allocations for performance 
where fragmentation is a problem, it can use a smaller footprint due to 
slub's per-cpu partial slabs, it is faster on some networking round-robin 
benchmarks on nUMA machines, and it is has less impact when implementing 
full kmem accounting for memcg.
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SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels Navin Parakkal <navinp1912@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 16:30 +0200
  Re: SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 21:50 +0200
  Re: SLUB vs SLAB allocator with respect to 3.x and 4.x kernels David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2015-08-27 23:10 +0200

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