From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: revert direct page allocator pass through
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:37:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901240237.10522.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901231025320.21692@qirst.com>
On Saturday 24 January 2009 02:27:29 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > I thought higher order allocations were not supposed to be used in
> > > performance critical paths?
> >
> > ? You use them all the time in SLUB alone.
>
> But SLUB compensates for the slow higher order allocs by using them as
> buffers for smaller objects.. The higher order allocs are in the slow
> paths.
I don't quite know what you're asking of me. If you see higher order
allocations in performance critical code, then you answer your own
question?
However, I don't know if netperf udp 4K over loopback is totally
realistic. Maybe real network drivers have different allocation patterns.
If I were you I wouldn't be too hasty to make big changes based on that
alone, if it could introduce regression in somewhere more important.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 8:43 [PATCH] SLUB: revert direct page allocator pass through Pekka J Enberg
2009-01-23 8:52 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 9:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:12 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 15:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:37 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-01-23 15:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:54 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 16:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24 3:11 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 15:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:41 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 15:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-26 17:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-03 1:33 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-03 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 20:12 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-23 9:22 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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