RE: Regression with SLUB on Netperf and Volanomark

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 18:02:58 EST


On Tue, 8 May 2007, Tim Chen wrote:

> I tried the slub-patches and the avoid atomic overhead patch against
> 2.6.21-mm1. It brings the TCP_STREAM performance for SLUB to the SLAB
> level. The patches not mentioned in the "series" file did not apply
> cleanly to 2.6.21-mm1 and I skipped most of those.

Ahhh. Great. The patches not mentioned should not be applied corredct.

> Without skip atomic overhead patch, the throughput drops by 1 to 1.5%.
>
> The change from slub_min_order=0 slub_max_order=4
> to slub_min_order=6 slub_max_order=7 did not make much difference in
> my tests.

Allright. I will then put that patch in.

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