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

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:33:44PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 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:

Yes I will.  Thanks for the pointer.


Thanks,
Kiran
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