Re: [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> One price to pay for these improvements is the need to scan over all percpu
> counters when the actual count values are needed.

Do you have numbers how costly alloc_percpu() is? I wonder what this
does to fork() overhead.

-Andi
 

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