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From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: perfmon2 vector argument question
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:24:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060630102435.GA21819@frankl.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060628201708.08af034c.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Does someone have something else to propose?
> > 
> > If not, what is your opinion of the two approaches above?
> > 
> 
> The first approach should be fine - we do that in lots of places, such as
> in core_sys_select().
> 
Ok, that's good to know. I looked at the stack consumption on x86 and it
is comparable to what you do for core_sys_select().

> Applications mut be calling this thing at a heck of a rate for kfree()
> overhead to matter.  I trust CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB wasn't turned on...

That was using a micro-benchmark to stress certain paths in perfmon.
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB was not turned on.

Thanks.

-- 
-Stephane

      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19 20:40 perfmon2 vector argument question Stephane Eranian
2006-06-29  3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 10:24   ` Stephane Eranian [this message]

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