On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Nick Piggin wrote: > > The SLAB scheme of not touching the object during management is adopted. > > SLUB can now efficiently free and allocate cache cold objects. > > BTW. this was never the problem with SLUB, because SLQB didn't have > the big performance regression on tpcc. SLUB IIRC had to touch more > cachelines per operation. Wish you were more detailed here. SLUB was designed for minimal cacheline footprint and always had an edge there. AFACT SLQB was able to address tpcc in some ways was because the issue with the hotpath on free was addressed. These were issues with atomic ops on free not cache footprint. -- 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>