From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:46:16 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] network memory allocator. Message-ID: <20060814114615.GA18321@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060814110359.GA27704@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:40:21PM +0200, Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov writes: > > > Design notes. > > Original idea was to store meta information used for allocation in an > > AVL tree [1], but since I found a way to use some "unused" fields in struct page, > > tree is unused in the allocator. > > But there seems to be still an AVL tree in there? Yep. Tree structure can be used for simpler memory addon/removal from hotplug, but I have not that in mind. It will be removed soon. > > Benchmarks with trivial epoll based web server showed noticeble (more > > than 40%) imrovements of the request rates (1600-1800 requests per > > second vs. more than 2300 ones). It can be described by more > > cache-friendly freeing algorithm, by tighter objects packing and thus > > reduced cache line ping-pongs, reduced lookups into higher-layer caches > > and so on. > > So what are its drawbacks compared to slab/kmalloc? Hmm... Bigger per-page overhead (additional bitmask of free/used objects). More complex algorithm behind freeing. > Also if it really performs that much better it might be a good > idea to replace all of kmalloc() with it, but doing that > would require a lot more benchmarks with various workloads > and small and big machines first. First user can be MMU-less systems which suffer noticebly from fragmentations and power-of-two overhead. > -Andi -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org