On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 11:46:58AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > As the SLOB removal is on track and the SLAB removal is planned, I have > realized - why should we stop there and not remove also SLUB? What's a > slab allocator good for in 2023? The RAM sizes are getting larger and > the modules cheaper [1]. The object constructor trick was perhaps > interesting in 1994, but not with contemporary CPUs. So all the slab > allocator does today is just adding an unnecessary layer of complexity > over the page allocator. Acked-by: Poisson D'Avril (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
