Re: Purpose of the mm/slab.c changes

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 12:22:52 EST

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (Doing per-CPU LIFO queues for the actual page allocator would potentially
> make page alloc/de-alloc much faster due to lower locking requirements
> too. So you might have a double performance win if anybody wants to try
> this out).
>
That patch already exists - Ingo wrote it, I think it's included in some
RedHat kernels.

But Andrea's changes mainly affect UP, not SMP.

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	Manfred
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