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DateMon, 2 Jan 2006 07:33:48 -0500 (EST)
FromSteven Rostedt <>
SubjectRe: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ?
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:

>> Also, wouldn't it be better to track kmem_cache_alloc and
> kmem_cache_alloc_node instead?>

I believe they are very interested in when kmalloc and kfree are used,
since those are the ones for the generic slabs.  And even then, they are
only profiling the ones that use a dynamic allocation.  (the kmalloc and
kfree of sizeof(x) is not profiled).  This was brought up earlier in the
thread.

-- Steve

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