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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, alex.shi@intel.com,
	yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 11:35:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF79761.5000402@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100521214135.23902.55360.stgit@gitlad.jf.intel.com>

Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch is meant to improve the performance of SLUB by moving the local
> kmem_cache_node lock into it's own cacheline separate from kmem_cache.
> This is accomplished by simply removing the local_node when NUMA is enabled.
> 
> On my system with 2 nodes I saw around a 5% performance increase w/
> hackbench times dropping from 6.2 seconds to 5.9 seconds on average.  I
> suspect the performance gain would increase as the number of nodes
> increases, but I do not have the data to currently back that up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>

Thanks for the fix, Alexander!

Yanmin and Alex, can I have your Tested-by or Acked-by please so we can 
close "[Bug #15713] hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e" 
after this patch is merged?

			Pekka

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-22  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21 21:41 [PATCH v2] slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline Alexander Duyck
2010-05-22  8:35 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-05-23 13:15   ` Shi, Alex
2010-05-24 13:52 ` Christoph Lameter

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