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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: willy@linux.intel.com, clameter@sgi.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
	hch@lst.de, mel@skynet.ie, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dgc@sgi.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:05:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004210518.GR12049@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004.135537.39158051.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:55:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Anything, I do mean anything, can be simulated using small test
> programs.  Pointing at a big fancy machine with lots of storage
> and disk is a passive aggressive way to avoid the real issues,
> in that nobody is putting forth the effort to try and come up
> with an at least publishable test case that Christoph can use to
> help you guys.
> 
> If coming up with a reproducable and publishable test case is
> the difference between this getting fixed and it not getting
> fixed, are you going to invest the time to do that?

If that's what it takes, then yes.  But I'm far from convinced that
it's as easy to come up with a TPC benchmark simulator as you think.
There have been efforts in the past (orasim, for example), but
presumably Christoph has already tried these benchmarks.

-- 
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19  3:36 [00/17] [RFC] Virtual Compound Page Support Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [01/17] Vmalloc: Move vmalloc_to_page to mm/vmalloc Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [02/17] Vmalloc: add const Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  6:32   ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19  7:24     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19  8:09       ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19  8:44         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19  9:19           ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 13:23             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 17:29           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 17:52             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 17:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 17:52         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [04/17] vmalloc: clean up page array indexing Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [05/17] vunmap: return page array Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  8:05   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-09-19 22:15     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-20  0:47       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [06/17] vmalloc_address(): Determine vmalloc address from page struct Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [07/17] GFP_VFALLBACK: Allow fallback of compound pages to virtual mappings Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [08/17] Pass vmalloc address in page->private Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [09/17] VFALLBACK: Debugging aid Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [10/17] Use GFP_VFALLBACK for sparsemem Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [11/17] GFP_VFALLBACK for zone wait table Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [12/17] Virtual Compound page allocation from interrupt context Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [13/17] Virtual compound page freeing in " Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:36   ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-20 17:50     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [14/17] Allow bit_waitqueue to wait on a bit in a vmalloc area Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  4:12   ` Gabriel C
2007-09-19 17:40     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK Christoph Lameter
2007-09-27 21:42   ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 17:33     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28  5:14       ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-01 20:50         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02  8:43           ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-04 16:16           ` SLUB performance regression vs SLAB Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 17:38             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 17:50               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04 17:58                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 18:26                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 20:48                 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 20:58                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 21:05                     ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:11                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 18:32               ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 17:49                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:28                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 19:05                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:46                       ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-10-04 20:55                     ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:02                       ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 21:11                         ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:47                           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 22:07                             ` David Miller
2007-10-04 22:23                               ` David Chinner
2007-10-05  6:48                                 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05  9:19                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-05  9:28                                     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 11:12                                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-05 12:39                                         ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 19:31                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 19:32                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 11:56                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-05 12:37                                     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 19:27                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 20:32                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 21:31                           ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:05                       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-10-05  2:43                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05  2:53                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-28 17:55       ` [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 18:20         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28 18:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 18:41             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28 20:22               ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 21:14               ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 20:59             ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-29  8:13             ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29  8:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29  8:53                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29  9:01                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29  9:14                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29  9:27                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 20:19                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-29 19:20                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 19:09                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 20:12                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30  4:16                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-29  9:00                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 20:55                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-01 21:30                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:38                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-01 21:45                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:52                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02  9:19                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29  8:45           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-01 21:01             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02  8:37               ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 21:05       ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-01 21:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [16/17] Allow virtual fallback for buffer_heads Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  3:36 ` [17/17] Allow virtual fallback for dentries Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  7:34 ` [00/17] [RFC] Virtual Compound Page Support Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19  8:34   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-09-19 17:33     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  8:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:36   ` Christoph Lameter

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