On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Hackbench was frequently cited in performance tests. Which benchmarks > > would be of interest? I am off this week so dont expect a fast response > > from me. > > I guess "netperf TCP_RR" is the most interesting one because that's a > known benchmark where SLUB performs poorly when compared to SLAB. > Mel's extensive slab benchmarks are also worth looking at: > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0902.0/00745.html > In addition to that benchmark, which regresses on systems with larger numbers of cpus, you had posted results for slub vs slab for kernbench, aim9, and sysbench before slub was ever merged. If you're going to use slab-like queueing in slub, it would be interesting to see if these particular benchmarks regress once again.