From 70adf5ebf9706c12042d4e636ac6fada7bf1ab29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:44:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 189/323] mm: Allow only SLUB on RT Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.10/older/patches-5.10.215-rt107.tar.xz Memory allocation disables interrupts as part of the allocation and freeing process. For -RT it is important that this section remain short and don't depend on the size of the request or an internal state of the memory allocator. At the beginning the SLAB memory allocator was adopted for RT's needs and it required substantial changes. Later, with the addition of the SLUB memory allocator we adopted this one as well and the changes were smaller. More important, due to the design of the SLUB allocator it performs better and its worst case latency was smaller. In the end only SLUB remained supported. Disable SLAB and SLOB on -RT. Only SLUB is adopted to -RT needs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- init/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 9807c66b24bb6..df8d0d0f800f5 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1922,6 +1922,7 @@ choice config SLAB bool "SLAB" + depends on !PREEMPT_RT select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR help The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work @@ -1942,6 +1943,7 @@ config SLUB config SLOB depends on EXPERT bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" + depends on !PREEMPT_RT help SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but -- 2.44.0