From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, gregkh@suse.de,
muli@il.ibm.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
ashok.raj@intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:49:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070608224931.GA10312@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706081532410.3966@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:33:39PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
>
> > > You _seem_ to be saying that the resource pools are there purely for
> > > alloc/free performance reasons. If so, I'd be skeptical: slab is pretty
> > > darned fast.
> > We need several objects of size say( 4 * sizeof(u64)) and reuse
> > them in dma map/unmap api calls for managing io virtual allocation address that
> > this driver has dished out. Hence having pool of objects where we put
> > the element in the linked list and and get it from the linked list is pretty
> > fast compared to slab.
>
> SLUB also manages objects using a linked list. Is there a real performance
> difference?
Sorry, I have not tried using SLUB, I will surely check this out.
-Anil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 18:56 [Intel-IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU Support anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:56 ` [Intel-IOMMU 01/10] DMAR detection and parsing logic anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 18:21 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 20:12 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 20:40 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-08 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:49 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S [this message]
2007-06-08 20:43 ` Andreas Kleen
2007-06-08 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-08 21:20 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-08 22:18 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-08 22:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-08 22:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-09 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-11 20:44 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-11 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-11 9:46 ` Ashok Raj
2007-06-11 22:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-11 23:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 23:52 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-12 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-12 1:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 1:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-12 1:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 2:08 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-13 18:40 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-13 19:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-12 0:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 21:40 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-11 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-11 11:29 ` Ashok Raj
2007-06-11 23:15 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 22:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:45 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 22:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-10 16:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-11 16:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 03/10] PCI generic helper function anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 04/10] clflush_cache_range now takes size param anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 05/10] IOVA allocation and management routines anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 18:25 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 06/10] Intel IOMMU driver anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-13 20:20 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 07/10] Intel iommu cmdline option - forcedac anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 08/10] DMAR fault handling support anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 09/10] Iommu Gfx workaround anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-08 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 10/10] Iommu floppy workaround anil.s.keshavamurthy
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