On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > SLOB: > > > > Memory required to boot: 6950K > > > > Slab: 368 kB > > > > SLUB: > > Memory required to boot: 6800K > > > > Slab: 552 kB > > > > SLUB with slab merging: > > > > Slab: 536 kB > > 168kB different on a system with less than 8MB memory looks rather > significant to me to simply delete SLOB, I'm afraid. This looks more like a bug/difference in SLAB accounting of SLOB. How could SLOB require more memory to boot but use less SLAB memory? This looks to me like a significant reason enough to remove SLOB since SLUB works with less memory than SLOB.
