Re: [PATCH] SLUB: revert direct page allocator pass through

[Nick Piggin]

On Saturday 24 January 2009 02:44:28 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 02:37 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > However, I don't know if netperf udp 4K over loopback is totally
> > realistic. Maybe real network drivers have different allocation patterns.
> > If I were you I wouldn't be too hasty to make big changes based on that
> > alone, if it could introduce regression in somewhere more important.
>
> Yup, I'm putting it in linux-next to see if anything pops up. It's of
> course possible that it will introduce regression somewhere but seeing
> the hit SLUB is taking from the page allocator, I'm bound to think that
> performance increase claims of commit
> aadb4bc4a1f9108c1d0fbd121827c936c2ed4217 ("SLUB: direct pass through of
> page size or higher kmalloc requests") don't hold anymore.

Well what workload were they relating to? That could easily be retested.

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