Re: [PATCH]: Free pages from local pcp lists under tight memoryconditions

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 16:25:45 EST


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rohit Seth wrote:

> I thought Nick et.al came up with some of the constant values like batch
> size to tackle the page coloring issue specifically. In any case, I
> think one of the key difference between 2.4 and 2.6 allocators is the
> pcp list. And even with the minuscule batch and high watermarks this is
> helping ordinary benchmarks (by reducing the variation from run to run).

Could you share some benchmark results?

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