Linux 6.8 To Drop The SLAB Allocator, SLUB Optimizations Coming Too

[spicfoo]

Only you are guessing here with your ridiculous ideas like trying to shoehorn mimalloc into the kernel

You are very confused. I wasn't talking about shoe horning anything into the kernel. You can use LD_PRELOAD to selectively opt into it wherever you want.

[ssokolow]

Only you are guessing here with your ridiculous ideas like trying to shoehorn mimalloc into the kernel

It sounds to me like the statement was more just a very easy-to-misinterpret phrasing of "People who want more performance and more security should swap out glibc's malloc implementation for mimalloc".

[spicfoo]

It sounds to me like the statement was more just a very easy-to-misinterpret phrasing of "People who want more performance and more security should swap out glibc's malloc implementation for mimalloc".

Winner winner chicken dinner

[varikonniemi]

>Are the slub optimizations security tested? Free/alloc optimizations are scary, without reading the code.
>>Maybe they should be using https://microsoft.github.io/mimalloc/

How you get that to reference c library allocator is beyond me when the thead topic and message you answer to is talking about in kernel allocator.

[spicfoo]

>Are the slub optimizations security tested? Free/alloc optimizations are scary, without reading the code.
>>Maybe they should be using https://microsoft.github.io/mimalloc/

How you get that to reference c library allocator is beyond me.

Pretty simple. Folks who are concerned about security have alternatives to consider for their own use.