On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> If can find criteria that are universally agreed upon then yes but that is >> doubtful. > > I think we can agree that perfect is the enemy of good, and that no > allocator will do the perfect thing for everybody. I think we have to > come up with a way to a single allocator. Yes. The interesting most interesting bit about SLEB for me is the freelist handling as bitmaps, not necessarily the "queuing" part. If the latter also helps some workloads, it's a bonus for sure. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>