Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 09 Sep 2001 19:22:52 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > (Doing per-CPU LIFO queues for the actual page allocator would potentially > make page alloc/de-alloc much faster due to lower locking requirements > too. So you might have a double performance win if anybody wants to try > this out). > That patch already exists - Ingo wrote it, I think it's included in some RedHat kernels.
But Andrea's changes mainly affect UP, not SMP. -- Manfred - 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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