Date: 2020-04-17 11:23:54
To:  Bernard Zhao <bernard@vivo.com>
Cc:  Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,linux-mm@kvack.org,linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,kernel@vivo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_index optimization(code size & runtime stable)>On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:03:30PM -0700, Bernard Zhao wrote:
>> kmalloc_index inline function code size optimization and runtime
>> performance stability optimization. After optimization, the function
>> kmalloc_index is more stable, the size will never affecte the function`s
>> execution efficiency.
>> And follow test data shows that the performance of new optimization
>> exceeds the original algorithm when applying for more than 512 Bytes
>> (include 512B).And new optimization runtime is more stable than before.
>
>That's all very well and good, but the vast majority of allocations
>are less than 512 bytes in size!  Your numbers show that on average,
>this patch makes the kernel slower!
>

    This is indeed the case, the new algorithm is stable at a time level, but 
there is a certain performance loss for relatively small memory(little than 512).
I will continue to pay attention to this part later.  Thanks.

>>             size        time/Per 100 million times.us
>>                         old fun		new fun with optimise
>> 		8	203777		241934
>> 		16	245611		409278
>> 		32	236384		408419
>> 		64	275499		447732
>> 		128	354909		416439
>> 		256	360472		406598
>> 		512	431072		409168
>> 		1024	463822		407401
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