Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:13:49 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: API changes to the slab allocator for NUMA memory allocation |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Correct, I was thinking about the NUMA case. > You've decided to add one register load to every call of kmalloc. On > i386, kmalloc_node() is a 24-byte function. I'd bet that adding the node > parameter to every call of kmalloc causes a .text increase larger than > 240 bytes. And I have not yet considered that you have increased the > number of conditional branches in every kmalloc(32,GFP_KERNEL) call by > 33%, i.e. from 3 to 4 conditional branch instructions. > I'd add an explicit kmalloc_node function. Attached is a prototype > patch. You'd have to reintroduce the flags field to > kmem_cache_alloc_node() and update kmalloc_node. > The patch was manually edited, I hope it applies to a recent tree ;-) > > What do you think?
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