Re: 2.4: why is NR_GFPINDEX so large?

Puppetmaster
2000-06-21T20:23:30Z

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com> on Wed, 21
> Jun 2000 12:56:12 -0700 (PDT)
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> > This is a left over from the days when we had a few more __GFP_ flags,
> > but that has been cleaned up now, so NR_GFPINDEX can go down.
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> Cool. I'm glad to see that my questions wasn't stupid :-)
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> >Be aware
> > of any cache footprint issues though.
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> Ok, you just lost me. What's a "cache footprint"?
Cache footprint refers to the amount of space code/data take up in the
cache. This is important for code that is frequently executed, as it is
very good performance-wise to have the nescessary data and code entirely
in the L1 cache.
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