From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>,
Linux MM mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4: why is NR_GFPINDEX so large?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006222022.NAA47942@google.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006222124060.2692-100000@inspiron.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Jun 22, 2000 09:26:56 PM
>
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> >So I suppose the best way to optimize this is to make sure that
> >"NR_GFPINDEX * sizeof(zonelist_t)" is a multiple of the cache line size?
>
> Yes but only in SMP. On an UP compile you can save space. For this purpose
> in ac22-class there's a ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp macro that you can
> use for things like that (it relies on the compiler enterely).
>
> Andrea
Umm, careful. If you happen to share a cacheline between a readonly array
and a frequently updated variable, it might be better not to delete
unused elements from an array - that way, you might be able to bunch up
all the frequently updated variables into their own cacheline, and save
the memory write back of an extra cacheline.
BTW, this is all of course nitpicking.
Kanoj
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-22 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-21 19:48 Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 19:56 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-06-21 19:57 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 20:23 ` Puppetmaster
2000-06-21 20:37 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 20:37 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-06-21 20:41 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 20:49 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-06-21 20:59 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 21:10 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-06-21 21:28 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-21 21:41 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-06-21 21:43 ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-22 19:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-22 19:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-23 17:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-23 17:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-23 18:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-23 18:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-22 20:22 ` Kanoj Sarcar [this message]
2000-06-23 18:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-21 21:22 ` James Manning
2000-06-21 21:24 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-21 21:15 frankeh
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