From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:25:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:25:39 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:37168 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:25:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 16:26:13 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Manfred Spraul Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes Message-ID: <20010909162613.Q11329@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <3B9B4CFE.E09D6743@colorfullife.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B9B4CFE.E09D6743@colorfullife.com>; from manfred@colorfullife.com on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:05:34PM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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