Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:30:51 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes |
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:47:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > doesn't matter which free page is used first/last. > > > > You're full of crap. > > LIFO is obviously superior due to cache re-use. > > Interersting question however. On SMP without sufficient per CPU slab caches > is tht still the case ?
if we stay in per-cpu caches then the other paths cannot run at all so it cannot make any difference for such case.
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