From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Shawn Joo <sjoo@nvidia.com>
Cc: "cl@linux-foundation.org" <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
"penberg@kernel.org" <penberg@kernel.org>,
"mpm@selenic.com" <mpm@selenic.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [question] how to increase the number of object on cache?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:02:01 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <501A7A49.6070506@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F2C6DA655B36C43B21C7FB179CEC9F4E3F157BDF1@HKMAIL02.nvidia.com>
On 08/02/2012 04:55 PM, Shawn Joo wrote:
>>> then yes, they will allocate the necessary number of pages from the standard page allocator.
> Who is "the standard page allocator" for cache in /proc/slabinfo, e.g. "size-65536" ?
> I believe one of allocator is buddy. who else?
>
The generic and algorithm-neutral answer to this is "whoever would
handle alloc_pages()".
In the specific case, yes, this is the buddy allocator.
Take a look at mm/slab.c, for instance:
When a cache can't service an allocation, it does:
cache_grow()
-> kmem_getpages()
-> alloc_pages_exact_node()
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-02 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-02 12:20 Shawn Joo
2012-08-02 12:50 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-02 12:55 ` Shawn Joo
2012-08-02 13:02 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-08-02 13:50 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
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