Re: [PATCH] 3 performance tweaks

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 00:31:55 EST


HI Manfred,

You changed some __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL) to kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE,
GFP_KERNEL).

This is a very interesting part of your patch. So, you counted the
tsc ticks and found kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) to be *awlays* faster than
__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)? Are you sure?

Even if so, switching to kmalloc makes it possible to fail more often (or
sooner) than plain gfp - have you considered this?

Regards,
Tigran.

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