Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:28:46 +0100 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: PATCH killing dead code and design errors in pre6 |
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MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > Or put it again into 2.3 or whatever. [...] > > it breaks the interface. The SLAB allocator should not be faulted for > other code not using it's capabilities ... It's not something obsolete, > it's a future use ... > > > [...] Even after my patch, there appears to be still *PLENTY* of room > > for other simplifications/optimizations in slab.c. > > your patches are welcome! (Last i checked it had a near perfect jumpless > fast path.)
You can well make the code denser to improve general cache/branch prediction behaviour for example, by removig a lot of featurism. My expierence shows that this is already quite a good optimization method in general.
Shorter code runs faster!
--Marcin
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