From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:30:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010909193051.X11329@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109090925080.14365-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <E15g7jk-0007Rb-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15g7jk-0007Rb-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:47:12PM +0100
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:47:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > doesn't matter which free page is used first/last.
> >
> > You're full of crap.
> > LIFO is obviously superior due to cache re-use.
>
> Interersting question however. On SMP without sufficient per CPU slab caches
> is tht still the case ?
if we stay in per-cpu caches then the other paths cannot run at all so it
cannot make any difference for such case.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-09 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-09 11:05 Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 14:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 15:18 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 15:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 18:41 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-11 19:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 20:43 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-12 14:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-09 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-09 16:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 17:22 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 17:27 ` arjan
2001-09-09 17:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 17:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-09-09 17:59 ` Fwd: 2.4.10-pre6 ramdisk driver broken? won't compile Stephan Gutschke
2001-09-09 20:26 ` Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes Rik van Riel
2001-09-15 0:29 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-09-09 20:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-09 20:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-09 20:45 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-09 20:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-22 12:28 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-09-22 21:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-22 21:36 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-10 2:28 ` Daniel Phillips
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20010909193051.X11329@athlon.random \
--to=andrea@suse.de \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=manfred@colorfullife.com \
--cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.