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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: kiran@scalex86.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] mm: alloc_percpu and bigrefs
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:17:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050923.001729.101033164.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050923001013.28b7f032.akpm@osdl.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:10:13 -0700

> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> > This patchset contains alloc_percpu + bigrefs + bigrefs for netdevice
> > refcount.  This patchset improves tbench lo performance by 6% on a 8 way IBM
> > x445.
> 
> I think we'd need more comprehensive benchmarks than this before adding
> large amounts of complex core code.

I agree.  tbench over loopback is about as far from real life
as it gets.

I'm still against expanding these networking datastructures with
bigrefs just for this stuff.  Some people have per-cpu and per-node on
the brain, and it's starting to bloat things up a little bit too much.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-23  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050923062529.GA4209@localhost.localdomain>
2005-09-23  7:10 ` [patch 0/6] mm: alloc_percpu and bigrefs Andrew Morton
2005-09-23  7:17   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-09-23  8:11     ` Rusty Russell
2005-09-23 11:36       ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-23 18:48         ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-23  9:03     ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23  9:35       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 18:40   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-23 18:50     ` David S. Miller
2005-09-23 23:30       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-23 19:16   ` Christoph Lameter

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