From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:45:26 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: slab cache Message-ID: <20020613174526.F9286@redhat.com> References: <3D036BBE.4030603@shaolinmicro.com> <20020610095750.B2571@redhat.com> <3D076339.1070301@shaolinmicro.com> <20020612162941.M12834@redhat.com> <3D08C984.3010308@shaolinmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D08C984.3010308@shaolinmicro.com>; from davidchow@shaolinmicro.com on Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:34:12AM +0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Chow Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:34:12AM +0800, David Chow wrote: > Thanks for comment, since you mention about cache, do you mean CPU L2 > caches? I don't use to dynamic alloc and dealloc pages, I have a fixed > sized cache per CPU, even using vmalloc I will only do it only once > during module initialize, and dealloc only on unload, In that case, slab won't have anything to offer you over basic use of get_free_pages(). --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/