From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:20:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194016836.27652.406.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711020734070.26635@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 07:35 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well I wonder if I should introduce it not as a replacement but as an
> alternative to allocpercpu? We can then gradually switch over. The
> existing API does not allow the specification of gfp_masks or alignements.
I've thought about suggesting that very thing. However, I think we need
to have a clear view of where we're going with that so that we don't end
up with two per cpu allocators because some users could not be converted
over or some such.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-02 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 0:02 [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 1/7] allocpercpu: Make it a true per cpu allocator by allocating from a per cpu array Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 7:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-01 12:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 2/7] allocpercpu: Remove functions that are rarely used Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 3/7] Allocpercpu: Do __percpu_disguise() only if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 7:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 4/7] Percpu: Add support for this_cpu_offset() to be able to create this_cpu_ptr() Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 5/7] SLUB: Use allocpercpu to allocate per cpu data instead of running our own per cpu allocator Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 6/7] SLUB: No need to cache kmem_cache data in kmem_cache_cpu anymore Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:02 ` [patch 7/7] SLUB: Optimize per cpu access on the local cpu using this_cpu_ptr() Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:24 ` [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead David Miller
2007-11-01 0:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:27 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 0:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 0:51 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 0:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 1:00 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 1:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 1:09 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 1:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 1:13 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 1:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 5:27 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 4:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 5:38 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 7:01 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 9:14 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 13:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 21:29 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 22:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 22:38 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 22:58 ` David Miller
2007-11-02 1:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-02 2:51 ` David Miller
2007-11-02 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-02 15:20 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-11-02 15:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-12 10:52 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-12 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-12 19:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-12 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-12 20:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-12 22:46 ` David Miller
2007-11-12 19:57 ` Luck, Tony
2007-11-12 20:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-12 22:46 ` David Miller
2007-11-12 21:28 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 23:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-02 0:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-02 1:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 7:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-11-01 7:57 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 13:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 21:25 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 12:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 21:28 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-01 22:14 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 22:16 ` Christoph Lameter
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