Re: Patch workqueue: create new slab cache instead of hacking

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 10:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > > Creating a dedicated cache for few objects ? Thats a lot of overhead, at
> > > least for SLAB (no merges of caches)
> >
> > Its some overhead for SLAB (a lot is what? If you tune down the per cpu
> > caches it should be a couple of pages) but its none for SLUB.
>
> SLAB overhead per cache is O(CPUS * nr_node_ids)  (unless alien caches
> are disabled)

nr_node_ids==2 in the standard case these days. Alien caches are minimal.

> For few in flight objects, its just better to use standard kmalloc-xxxx
> caches.

Its easier to use a custom slab cache. Avoids hackery like we have in
workqueue.c

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