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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:41:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816084119.GW6908@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060816095254.14ac872c.ak@muc.de>

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 1. shrink_slab takes a function to move object. Using that
> >    function slabs can be defragmented to ease slab reclaim.
> 
> Does that help with the inefficient dcache/icache pruning? 

There was a fair amount of debate on this at the VM summit.

The approach we thought was most promising started with splitting the
dcache into directory and leaf entries.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-16  2:22 [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1 Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:22 ` [MODSLAB 1/7] Extract allocpercpu from Slab Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:22 ` [MODSLAB 2/7] Allocator Framework and misc features Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:22 ` [MODSLAB 3/7] A Kmalloc subsystem Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  7:43   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-17  0:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-17  5:19       ` Manfred Spraul
2006-08-17 11:42         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-17 16:26         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-19  7:08           ` Manfred Spraul
2006-08-19 16:46             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-19 18:54               ` Manfred Spraul
2006-08-19 19:17                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-18  6:17         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-18  7:17           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-18 16:58             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-18 18:19               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-18 18:44                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-18 19:13                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-18 19:19                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:22 ` [MODSLAB 4/7] Slabulator: Emulate the existing Slab Layer Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:23 ` [MODSLAB 5/7] A slab allocator: SLABIFIER Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:23 ` [MODSLAB 6/7] A slab allocator: NUMA Slab allocator Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  2:23 ` [MODSLAB 7/7] A slab allocator: Page " Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  7:52 ` [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1 Andi Kleen
2006-08-16  8:41   ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2006-08-16  9:38     ` David Chinner
2006-08-16 15:08     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16 15:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16  8:12 ` David Chinner
2006-08-16  8:32   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-16  9:18     ` David Chinner
2006-08-16 15:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16 16:15 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-08-16 21:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16 22:16   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16 22:34   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-16 22:45     ` Christoph Lameter

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