On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> actually, one real advantage of the SLOB is that it is a minimal, really
> simple allocator. Its text and data size is so small as well.
>
> here's the size comparison:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 10788 837 16 11641 2d79 mm/slab.o
> 6205 4207 124 10536 2928 mm/slub.o
> 1640 44 4 1688 698 mm/slob.o
>
> slab/slub have roughly the same footprint, but slob is 10% of that size.
> Would be a waste to throw this away.
The last of my tests showed that SLOB is at about 50% of the size of
SLUB. You need to compile SLUB in embedded mode with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG to
get a reduce code size.
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