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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:28:41 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > 1. Proven code from the IA64 arch. > > The method used here has been fine tuned for years and > is NUMA aware. It is based on the knowledge that accesses > to page table pages are sparse in nature. Taking a page > off the freelists instead of allocating a zeroed pages > allows a reduction of number of cachelines touched > in addition to getting rid of the slab overhead. So > performance improves. By how much? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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