From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:42:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020902031042i31eaec14v53a0e7a203acd28b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0902031217390.17910@qirst.com>
Hi Christoph,
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> > Trimming through water marks and allocating memory from the page allocator
>> > is going to be very frequent if you continually allocate on one processor
>> > and free on another.
>>
>> Um yes, that's the point. But you previously claimed that it would just
>> grow unconstrained. Which is obviously wrong. So I don't understand what
>> your point is.
>
> It will grow unconstrained if you elect to defer queue processing. That
> was what we discussed.
Well, the slab_hiwater() check in __slab_free() of mm/slqb.c will cap
the size of the queue. But we do the same thing in SLAB with
alien->limit in cache_free_alien() and ac->limit in __cache_free(). So
I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the queues will "grow
unconstrained" (in either of the allocators). Hmm?
Pekka
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Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 9:04 [patch] SLQB slab allocator Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 10:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-14 11:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 13:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-14 14:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 14:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-14 15:09 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 15:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 15:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-14 15:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 18:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-15 6:19 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15 20:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16 3:43 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 21:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-19 6:18 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-22 0:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22 9:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22 9:30 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22 9:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 4:09 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 15:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:53 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-26 17:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 1:53 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-03 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 18:42 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-02-03 18:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-04 4:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-04 20:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-05 3:18 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-04 20:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-05 3:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-04 4:07 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-14 18:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-15 6:03 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15 20:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16 3:19 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 21:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-19 5:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-22 0:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 15:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:10 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 17:09 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-26 17:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 1:42 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-26 17:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 1:48 ` Nick Piggin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-21 14:30 Nick Piggin
2009-01-21 14:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-21 16:56 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-21 17:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-23 3:31 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 6:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21 17:59 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-23 3:35 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 4:00 ` Joe Perches
2009-01-21 18:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-22 10:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22 12:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-23 14:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-23 14:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-02 3:38 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-02 9:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-02 15:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 1:34 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-03 7:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-03 12:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-04 2:21 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-05 19:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-06 0:47 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-06 8:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-06 12:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-10 8:56 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-02 11:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-23 3:55 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 13:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-22 8:45 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 3:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 9:00 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 13:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-23 13:44 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 9:55 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 10:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 11:25 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 13:18 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 14:04 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 14:27 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 15:06 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 15:15 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 12:55 ` Nick Piggin
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