Re: Slow vmalloc in 2.6.35-rc3

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/24/2010 06:14 PM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:19:32PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
> > I see really slow vmalloc performance on 2.6.35-rc3:
> >      
> Can you try this patch?
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmap-area-cache.patch
>    

The patch completely eliminates the problem.

> > It seems completely wrong - iterating 8 levels of a binary tree
> > shouldn't take half a millisecond.
> >      
> It's not iterating down the tree, it's iterating through the
> nodes to find a free area. Slows down because lazy vunmap means
> that quite a lot of little areas build up right at the start of
> our search start address. The vmap cache should hopefully fix
> it up.
>    

I see, thanks.

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