Re: SLUB: Increasing partial pages

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Jan 16 2008 - 17:34:42 EST


On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> About 0.1-0.2% 0.3% is considered significant.

The results are that stable? A kernel compilation which slightly
rearranges cachelines due to code and data changes typically leads to a
larger variance on my 8 way box (gets even larger under NUMA). I would
expect that the variations on a database load would be more significant.

I repeatedly saw patches from Intel to do minor changes to SLAB that
increase performance by 0.5% or so (like the recent removal of a BUG_ON
for performance reasons). These do not regress again when you build a
newer kernel release?
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