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Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] slub partial list thrashing performance degradation
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
       Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
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On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:43 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> SLUB causes a performance degradation in comparison to SLAB when a
> workload has an object allocation and freeing pattern such that it spends
> more time in partial list handling than utilizing the fastpaths.

Christoph, Nick, any objections to merging this? The patches look sane
and the numbers convincing enough to me.

			Pekka