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DateTue, 5 Feb 2008 09:24:30 +0200 (EET)
FromPekka J Enberg <>
SubjectRe: SLUB: Support for statistics to help analyze allocator behavior
Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior
> at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
> SLUB's per cpu data structure that is already written to by other code.

Looks good but I am wondering if we want to make the statistics per-CPU so 
that we can see the kmalloc/kfree ping-pong of, for example, hackbench 
better?

			Pekka


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