Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

[Pekka Enberg]

Mel Gorman wrote:
> > There's a follow-up patch from Yanmin which
> > will make a difference for large allocations when page-allocator
> > pass-through is reverted:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=79b350ab63458ef1d11747b4f119baea96771a6e
>
> Is this expected to make a difference to workloads that are not that
> allocator intensive? I doubt it'll make much different to speccpu but
> conceivably it makes a difference to sysbench.

I doubt that too but I fail to see why it's regressing with the revert 
in the first place for speccpu. Maybe it's cache effects, dunno.

			Pekka
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