Re: [patch] kmalloc_percpu -- 2 of 2

From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 10:08:54 EST


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:11:53PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > Doesn't your allocator increase chances of cache conflict on the same
> > cpu ?
> >
>
> You mean by increasing the footprint and the chance of eviction ? It
> is a compromise. Or you would face NR_CPUS bloat and non-NUMA-node-local
> accesses for all CPUs outside the NUMA node where your NR_CPUS array
> is located.

What do you base the trade-off decision on?

>
> Thanks
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> Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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