On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > I have some ideas for improving SLUB allocator further, after my work > on implementing the slab bulk APIs. Maybe you can give me a small > slot, I only have 7 guidance slides. Or else I hope we/I can talk > about these ideas in a hallway track with Christoph and others involved > in slab development... I will be there. > I've already published the preliminary slides here: > http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2016/slab_mm_summit2016.odp Re Autotuning: SLUB obj per page: SLUB can combine pages of different orders in a slab cache so this would be possible. per CPU freelist per page: Could we drop the per cpu partial lists if this works? Clearing memory: Could exploit the fact that the page is zero on alloc and also zap when no object in the page is in use? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>