Re: Patch workqueue: create new slab cache instead of hacking

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:54 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 10:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > >
> > > > Creating a dedicated cache for few objects ? Thats a lot of overhead, at
> > > > least for SLAB (no merges of caches)
> > >
> > > Its some overhead for SLAB (a lot is what? If you tune down the per cpu
> > > caches it should be a couple of pages) but its none for SLUB.
> >
> > SLAB overhead per cache is O(CPUS * nr_node_ids)  (unless alien caches
> > are disabled)
> 
> nr_node_ids==2 in the standard case these days. Alien caches are minimal.


Thats not true. Some machines use lots of nodes (fake nodes) for various
reasons.

And they cant disable alien caches for performance reasons.



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