Re: [PATCH 3/5] cifsd: add file operations

Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-22T13:58:23Z

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:03:21PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (21/03/22 08:15), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > What's the scenario for which your allocator performs better than slub
> >
>
> IIRC request and reply buffers can be up to 4M in size. So this stuff
> just allocates a number of fat buffers and keeps them around so that
> it doesn't have to vmalloc(4M) for every request and every response.

Do we have any data suggesting it is faster than vmalloc?