Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:09:04 +0200 (EET) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ? |
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > I wasn't proposing fully dynamic slabs, just a better default set > of slabs based on real measurements instead of handwaving (like > the power of two slabs seemed to have been generated). With separate > sets for 32bit and 64bit. > > Also the goal wouldn't be better performance, but just less waste of memory. > > I suspect such a move could save much more memory on small systems > than any of these "make fundamental debugging tools a CONFIG" patches ever.
I misunderstood what you were proposing. Sorry. It makes sense to measure it.
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