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Monday, October 13 • 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Slab Allocators in the Linux Kernel - Christoph Lameter

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Slab allocators are providing memory allocation to kernel code. Often these allocations may occur in performance sensitive code (especially in the network and storage layer). Kernel performance is significantly affected by the slab allocators architecture and features.

The talk provides an overview of the slab allocator services available in the Linux kernel and covers the most frequent use cases. The approaches used in the three slab allocators (SLAB, SLUB, SLOB) are compared and ways to get the maximum performance out of each of them are presented.

Lastly a series of common gotchas when using slab allocators are reviewed followed by an open discussion on issues and the future of the slab subsystems.
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Christoph Lameter

R&D Team Lead, Jump Trading LLC
Christoph Lameter is working as a lead in research and development for Jump Trading LLC (an algorithmic trading company) in Chicago and maintains the slab allocators and the per cpu subsystems in the Linux Kernel. He contributed to a number of Linux projects since the initial kernel... Read More →

Monday October 13, 2014 3:30pm - 4:20pm CEST
Room 8
  LinuxCon, Experience Level - Advanced

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