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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.1-rc0
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > Christoph, your debugging fix has been in linux-next for few days now
> > and no problem have been reported. I'm considering sending the series
> > to Linus. What do you think?
> >
>
> I ran slub/lockless through some stress testing and it seems to be quite
> stable on my testing cluster. There is about a 2.3% performance
> improvement with the lockless slowpath on the netperf benchmark with
> various thread counts on my 16-core 64GB Opterons, so I'd recommend it to
> be merged into 3.1.

Great. Could you also test the next stage of patches (not yet even in
Pekka's tree) where we add a per cpu cache of partial allocated slab
pages? This decreases the per node lock contention further. I can repost
the set if the old one does not work for you. Shows significant
improvement here as well.





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