From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:04:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013a0d314c3f-e5b12d01-7a99-4368-82a0-f5de4d46f804-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1209271546460.13360@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
> > This means touching another field from critical paths of the allocators.
> > It would increase the cache footprint and therefore reduce performance.
> >
>
> To clarify your statement, you're referring to the mm/slab.c allocation of
> new slab pages and when debugging is enabled as "critical paths", correct?
> We would disagree on that point.
This is not debugging specific. Flags are also consulted to do RCU
processing and other things.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 11:17 Glauber Costa
2012-09-25 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-26 0:46 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-26 8:43 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-27 1:16 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-27 6:59 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-27 22:56 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-28 7:46 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-28 20:25 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-28 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-28 20:39 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-28 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-28 23:11 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-01 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-01 7:28 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-10-01 7:58 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-27 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-27 22:50 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-28 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2012-09-28 20:36 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-26 14:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-27 1:12 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-27 13:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-27 22:52 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-28 14:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-28 20:30 ` David Rientjes
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