Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:28:44 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kmalloc_percpu -- 2 of 2 |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:32:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> Where in the kernel is such a large number of 4-, 8- or 16-byte >>> objects being used?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:23:29PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > Well, kernel objects may not be that small, but one would expect > > the per-cpu parts of the kernel objects to be sometimes small, often down to > > a couple of counters counting statistics.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:23:12AM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > Doesn't your allocator increase chances of cache conflict on the same > cpu ?
This is so; I'm personally far more concerned about ZONE_NORMAL space consumption in the cacheline aligned case.
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