From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Ruthiano Simioni Munaretti <ruthiano@exatas.unisinos.br>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, sisopiii-l@cscience.org
Subject: Re: Non-Contiguous Memory Allocation Tests
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:32:26 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312122130590.26386-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312091111.21349.ruthiano@exatas.unisinos.br>
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Ruthiano Simioni Munaretti wrote:
> Our patch is intended to be a test to check if this could bring enough
> benefits to deserve a more careful implementation. We also included some code
> to benchmark allocations and deallocations, using the RDTSC instruction.
I doubt it. The vmalloc code path should not be used very
often at all in the kernel and for userspace allocations the
bigger overhead will probably be in things like setting up
page tables and zeroing out the pages.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-09 13:11 Ruthiano Simioni Munaretti
2003-12-13 2:32 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-12-10 14:42 Mark_H_Johnson
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