From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: Page allocator: Single Zone optimizations
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:50:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103135013.6bdc6240.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611031329480.16397@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:42:16 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Kernel pages are buffered already in the slab
> allocator
But why? I've been intermittently campaigning to stop doing that for about
five years now. Having private lists of free pages in the slab allocator
is duplicative of the page allocator's lists and worsens performance.
In fact I thought we'd stopped doing this ages ago.
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 0:50 Christoph Lameter
2006-10-17 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-17 1:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-17 1:27 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-10-17 1:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-17 6:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-17 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-18 11:15 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 19:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-23 23:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-24 1:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-26 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-26 22:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-28 1:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-28 2:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 2:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-28 2:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 2:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-28 4:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 7:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-10-28 16:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-29 0:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-29 1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-29 1:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-29 11:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-30 16:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-01 18:26 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-01 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 21:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-01 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 21:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-01 22:13 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-01 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 0:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 12:45 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-01 22:10 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-02 17:37 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 18:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 20:58 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-02 21:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 21:16 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-02 21:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 22:37 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-02 22:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 9:14 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-03 13:17 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-03 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 19:06 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-03 19:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 21:11 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-03 21:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 21:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-03 21:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-03 22:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 22:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-04 0:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-04 1:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-06 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-06 17:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 17:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-06 17:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-06 17:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 17:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-06 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-07 16:30 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-07 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-07 18:14 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-08 0:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-11-08 2:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-13 21:08 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-03 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-03 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 18:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-03 19:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 18:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 21:51 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-02 22:03 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 18:13 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-01 17:39 ` Mel Gorman
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