netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
	linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mawilcox@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] page_frag_cache: Store metadata in struct page
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:54:58 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180317.165458.1452469008226572576.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0Uf0qWbo7T8j00Owt_hEj6vZSY-MOsqUeZCek1x62DKz4Q@mail.gmail.com>

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:26:28 -0700

> So my concern with this patch is that it is essentially trading off
> CPU performance for reduced size. One of the reasons for getting away
> from using the page pointer is because it is expensive to access the
> page when the ref_count is bouncing on multiple cache lines.

Agreed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-17 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-15 19:53 [RFC 0/2] Shrink page_frag_cache Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-15 19:53 ` [RFC 1/2] mm: Use page->mapping to indicate pfmemalloc Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-15 19:53 ` [RFC 2/2] page_frag_cache: Store metadata in struct page Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-15 21:03   ` Eric Dumazet
2018-03-15 21:26   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-16 21:05     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-16 21:32       ` Eric Dumazet
2018-03-19  8:27       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-03-17 20:54     ` David Miller [this message]
2018-03-17  2:17   ` [page_frag_cache] 47b0eaa4b5: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel kernel test robot
2018-03-20 20:47   ` [RFC 2/2] page_frag_cache: Store metadata in struct page Alexander Duyck
2018-03-15 20:02 ` [RFC 0/2] Shrink page_frag_cache Alexander Duyck

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180317.165458.1452469008226572576.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=alexander.duyck@gmail.com \
    --cc=alexander.h.duyck@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-mm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mawilcox@microsoft.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=willy@infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).