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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo•com.au>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, sfr@canb•auug.org.au, matthew@wil•cx,
	matthew.r.wilcox@intel•com, chinang.ma@intel•com,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, sharad.c.tripathi@intel•com,
	arjan@linux•intel.com, andi.kleen@intel•com,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel•com, harita.chilukuri@intel•com,
	douglas.w.styner@intel•com, peter.xihong.wang@intel•com,
	hubert.nueckel@intel•com, chris.mason@oracle•com,
	srostedt@redhat•com, linux-scsi@vger•kernel.org,
	andrew.vasquez@qlogic•com, anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:00:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090115230043.57caae5d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901161746.25205.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:46:23 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo•com.au> wrote:

> On Friday 16 January 2009 15:12:10 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:03:12 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo•com.au> 
> wrote:
> > > I would like to see SLQB merged in mainline, made default, and wait for
> > > some number releases. Then we take what we know, and try to make an
> > > informed decision about the best one to take. I guess that is problematic
> > > in that the rest of the kernel is moving underneath us. Do you have
> > > another idea?
> >
> > Nope.  If it doesn't work out, we can remove it again I guess.
> 
> OK, I have these numbers to show I'm not completely off my rocker to suggest
> we merge SLQB :) Given these results, how about I ask to merge SLQB as default
> in linux-next, then if nothing catastrophic happens, merge it upstream in the
> next merge window, then a couple of releases after that, given some time to
> test and tweak SLQB, then we plan to bite the bullet and emerge with just one
> main slab allocator (plus SLOB).

That's a plan.

> SLQB tends to be the winner here.

Can you think of anything with which it will be the loser?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <200901161503.13730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
     [not found]   ` <20090115201210.ca1a9542.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-16  6:46     ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  6:55       ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16  7:06         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  7:53         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20           ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20  5:16             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22  8:36                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:15                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22  9:28                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:47                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  3:02                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  6:52                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:06                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:30                               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:40                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  9:46                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24  2:55                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24  7:36                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12  5:22                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12  5:47                                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07                                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01  2:52                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:33                           ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23  9:02                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40                               ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51                                 ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24  3:03                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26                                   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-16  7:00       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-16  7:25         ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  8:59         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19  7:43         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19           ` Rick Jones

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