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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 16:26:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010909162613.Q11329@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B9B4CFE.E09D6743@colorfullife.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B9B4CFE.E09D6743@colorfullife.com>; from manfred@colorfullife.com on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:05:34PM +0200

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:05:34PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> What's the purpose of the mm/slab.c changes?

it provides lifo allocations from both partial and unused slabs.  You
should benchmark it with a real load, not with dummy
allocations/freeing.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-09 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-09 11:05 Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 14:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-09-09 15:18   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 15:33     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 18:41       ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-11 19:36         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 20:43           ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-12 14:18             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 16:12     ` Alan Cox
2001-09-09 16:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 16:47       ` Alan Cox
2001-09-09 16:55         ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 17:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 17:22           ` Manfred Spraul
2001-09-09 17:27           ` arjan
2001-09-09 17:35           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 17:30         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 17:59         ` Fwd: 2.4.10-pre6 ramdisk driver broken? won't compile Stephan Gutschke
2001-09-09 20:26         ` Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes Rik van Riel
2001-09-15  0:29       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-09-09 20:23     ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-09 20:44       ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-09 20:45         ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-09 20:58           ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-22 12:28             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-09-22 21:03               ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-22 21:36                 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-10  2:28     ` Daniel Phillips

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