Re: Slab infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing V2

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:31:19 -0500 (CDT)
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:

> After all of the earlier discussions I thought it would be better to
> first get agreement on the basic way to allow implementation of the
> bulk alloc in the common slab code. So this is a revision of the initial
> proposal and it just covers the first patch.

I agree, it would be good to get the basic API in.
 
> This patch adds the basic infrastructure for alloc / free operations
> on pointer arrays. It includes a generic function in the common
> slab code that is used in this infrastructure patch to
> create the unoptimized functionality for slab bulk operations.
> 
> Allocators can then provide optimized allocation functions
> for situations in which large numbers of objects are needed.
> These optimization may avoid taking locks repeatedly and
> bypass metadata creation if all objects in slab pages
> can be used to provide the objects required.

I'll volunteer to performance benchmark the different allocators
optimized functions in this area. (I'll have time after April 13th).

 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
 
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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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