Re: [RFC] Reimplementation of linux dynamic percpu memory allocator

[Manfred Spraul]

Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>  
>
> > No, not fast path. But it can happen a few thousand times. The slab 
> > implementation failed due to heavy internal fragmentation. If your code 
> > runs fine with a few thousand users, then there shouldn't be a problem.
> >    
>
>  
Could you ask Badari Pulavarty (pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx)?
He noticed the fragmentation problem with the original 
kmem_cache_alloc_node implementation. Perhaps he could just run your 
version with his test setup:
The thread with the fix is at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109735434400002&r=1&w=2

--
   Manfred
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