Re: SLUB: Support for statistics to help analyze allocator behavior

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 02:24:42 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior
> at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
> SLUB's per cpu data structure that is already written to by other code.

Looks good but I am wondering if we want to make the statistics per-CPU so
that we can see the kmalloc/kfree ping-pong of, for example, hackbench
better?

Pekka
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