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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ?
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:50:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23471.1135821010@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:29:15 CDT." <20051229012915.GB3286@redhat.com>

Dave Jones (on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:29:15 -0500) wrote:
>
> > Something like this:
> > 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/124374/
>
>One thing that really sticks out like a sore thumb is soft_cursor()
>That thing gets called a *lot*, and every time it does a kmalloc/free
>pair that 99.9% of the time is going to be the same size alloc as
>it was the last time.  This patch makes that alloc persistent
>(and does a realloc if the size changes).
>The only time it should change is if the font/resolution changes I think.

Can soft_cursor() be called from multiple processes at the same time,
in particular with dual head systems?  If so then a static variable is
not going to work.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-29  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21  8:00 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0 Junio C Hamano
2005-12-21  9:11 ` [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ? Eric Dumazet
2005-12-21  9:22   ` David S. Miller
2005-12-21 10:03     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-12-21  9:46   ` Alok kataria
2005-12-21 12:44   ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-12-21 13:20     ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-21 13:38       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-21 14:09         ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-21 16:40           ` Dave Jones
2005-12-21 19:36             ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-28  8:32   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-12-28  8:54     ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-12-28 17:57       ` Andreas Kleen
2005-12-28 21:01         ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-29  1:26           ` Dave Jones
2005-12-30  4:06             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-02  8:46               ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-02  8:51                 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-02 12:33                   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-02 12:31                 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-29  1:29           ` Dave Jones
2005-12-29  1:50             ` Keith Owens [this message]
2005-12-29  2:39               ` Dave Jones
2006-01-02 15:03                 ` Helge Hafting
2006-01-04  5:26               ` Dave Jones
2005-12-30 21:13           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-31 20:13             ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-29 19:48         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-29 21:16           ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-02  8:37         ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-02 12:45           ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-02 13:04             ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-02 13:56               ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-02 15:09                 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-02 15:46                 ` Jörn Engel

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