From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:10:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d5db1da-7dc3-4ca9-85cb-1e97ba4e8925@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aVyRz62kQbPe5HbI@casper.infradead.org>
On 06/01/2026 04:38, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 04:17:36PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A recent change to vmalloc caused some performance benchmark regressions (see
>> [1]). I'm attempting to fix that (and at the same time signficantly improve
>
> Unfortunately, there was no [1] ...
Oops:
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/66919a28-bc81-49c9-b68f-dd7c73395a0d@arm.com/
(it's the same link as Closes: tag in patch 2).
> I'm not sure this benchmark is
> really doing anything representative.
Yes that's probably fair, but my argument is that we should either care about
the numbers or delete the tests. It seems we don't want to delete the tests.
> But the performance improvement
> is certainly welcome; we'd deferred work on that for later.
OK, let's focus on the "performance improvement" motivation instead of the
"regression fixing" part :)
Thanks,
Ryan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-06 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-05 16:17 Ryan Roberts
2026-01-05 16:17 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/page_alloc: Optimize free_contig_range() Ryan Roberts
2026-01-05 17:15 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-05 17:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-07 3:32 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-05 16:17 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] vmalloc: Optimize vfree Ryan Roberts
2026-01-06 4:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-01-06 9:47 ` David Laight
2026-01-06 11:04 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-05 16:26 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-05 16:36 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-05 16:41 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-06 4:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-01-06 11:10 ` Ryan Roberts [this message]
2026-01-06 11:34 ` Uladzislau Rezki
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