From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.de>
To: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, slob: Rewrite SLOB using segregated free list
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:58:54 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2110250957040.2528@gentwo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211021114112.GA4004@kvm.asia-northeast3-a.c.our-ratio-313919.internal>
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> But on the contrary, I wonder when SLOB is useful than SLUB.
> is it for really tiny linux systems that has under 1M of RAM?
> But can linux be that small?
SLOB I think is mainly a nice intro into how slab allocators work. It is a
simple architecture and the code is to read and therefore easily
understood. I heard of some use cases from others but I have only ever
been able to run a kernel boot in KVM with SLOB.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-25 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-20 13:55 [RFC PATCH] mm, slob: Rewrite SLOB using segregated free list Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-10-20 14:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-21 8:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-10-21 11:41 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-10-25 7:58 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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