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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIAL
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:33:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218544433.7813.301.camel@penberg-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080812122751.GY8618@parisc-linux.org>

Hi Matthew,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:39:36AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > This patch changes the static MIN_PARTIAL to a dynamic per-cache ->min_partial
> > value that is calculated from object size. The bigger the object size, the more
> > pages we keep on the partial list.
> > 
> > I tested SLAB, SLUB, and SLUB with this patch on Jens Axboe's 'netio' example
> > script of the fio benchmarking tool. The script stresses the networking
> > subsystem which should also give a fairly good beating of kmalloc() et al.

i>>?On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 06:27 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> We tested this patch and it was performance-neutral on TPC-C.  I was
> hoping it would give a nice improvement ... so I'm disappointed.  But at
> least there's no regression!

OK, so your regression is something else then. Well, thanks for testing!

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 21:39 Pekka J Enberg, Pekka Enberg
2008-08-04 21:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-12 12:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-12 12:33   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]

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