From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 19:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B9BA56C.5115DFBF@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109090952380.14365-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (Doing per-CPU LIFO queues for the actual page allocator would potentially
> make page alloc/de-alloc much faster due to lower locking requirements
> too. So you might have a double performance win if anybody wants to try
> this out).
>
That patch already exists - Ingo wrote it, I think it's included in some
RedHat kernels.
But Andrea's changes mainly affect UP, not SMP.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-09 17:22 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 [this message]
2001-09-09 17:27 ` arjan
2001-09-09 17:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 17:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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
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