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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/9] slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803201128001.10474@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205989839.14496.32.camel@ymzhang>

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> page->objects = (PAGE_SIZE << get_order(s->size)) / s->size;
> 
> 
> It'll look more readable and be simplified.

The earlier version of the fallback had that.

However, its a division in a potentially hot codepath.
And some architectures have slow division logic.



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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080317230516.078358225@sgi.com>
     [not found] ` <20080317230528.279983034@sgi.com>
2008-03-19  9:09   ` [patch 2/9] Store max number of objects in the page struct Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-19 17:49     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20  3:32       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 21:05         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 22:24         ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-22  3:27           ` Ben Pfaff
2008-03-24  1:22           ` [PATCH] Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others Zhang, Yanmin
     [not found] ` <20080317230528.939792410@sgi.com>
2008-03-20  5:10   ` [patch 5/9] slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:29     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-03-21  0:52       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-21  3:35         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21  5:14           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-21  6:07             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21  8:23               ` Zhang, Yanmin
     [not found] ` <20080317230529.701336582@sgi.com>
2008-03-20  5:53   ` [patch 8/9] slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:31     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20 23:57       ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found] ` <20080317230529.474353536@sgi.com>
2008-03-18 18:54   ` [patch 7/9] slub: Adjust order boundaries and minimum objects per slab Pekka Enberg
2008-03-18 19:00     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-19  1:04       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-19 15:20         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-20  6:44   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:32     ` Christoph Lameter

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