* Re: [patch 3/5] slub: Support 4k kmallocs again to compensate for page allocator slowness
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@ 2008-02-14 7:01 ` Pekka Enberg
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From: Pekka Enberg @ 2008-02-14 7:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: clameter; +Cc: linux-mm
On 2/14/2008, "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Currently we hand off PAGE_SIZEd kmallocs to the page allocator in the
> mistaken belief that the page allocator can handle these allocations
> effectively. However, measurements indicate a mininum slowdown by the
> factor of 8 (and that is only SMP, NUMA is much worse) vs the slub
> fastpath which causes regressions in tbench.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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