Re: andrea buffer code (2.2.9-C.gz)

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
23 May 1999 19:44:52 -0400

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>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
> Impacting runtime performances to SMP scale better, is going to lose
> according to me. I think that if you want to SMP scale better it worth to
> pay _only_ with memory wastage and _not_ with wasted CPU cycles.

The rule generally goes in the other directions for fairly obvious reasons:
the amount of memory-resources per CPU is usually lower on an SMP so you
want to save memory more than you want to save CPU.

Stefan

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