Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

[Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:25:35PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> > Slightly later than hoped for, but here are the results of the profile
> > run between the different slab allocators. It also includes information on
> > the performance on SLUB with the allocator pass-thru logic reverted by commit
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=97a4871761e735b6f1acd3bc7c3bac30dae3eab9
> 
> Did you just cherry-pick the patch or did you run it with the
> topic/slub/perf branch?

Cherry picked to minimise the number of factors involved.

> There's a follow-up patch from Yanmin which
> will make a difference for large allocations when page-allocator
> pass-through is reverted:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=79b350ab63458ef1d11747b4f119baea96771a6e
> 

Is this expected to make a difference to workloads that are not that
allocator intensive? I doubt it'll make much different to speccpu but
conceivably it makes a difference to sysbench.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab