Re: [this_cpu_xx V6 7/7] this_cpu: slub aggressive use of this_cpuoperations in the hotpaths

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> I ran 60-second netperf TCP_RR benchmarks with various thread counts over
> two machines, both four quad-core Opterons.  I ran the trials ten times
> each with both vanilla per-cpu#for-next at 9288f99 and with v6 of this
> patchset.  The transfer rates were virtually identical showing no
> improvement or regression with this patchset in this benchmark.
>
>  [ As I reported in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123839191416472,
>    this benchmark continues to be the most significant regression slub has
>    compared to slab. ]

Hmmm... Last time I ran the in kernel benchmarks this showed a reduction
in cycle counts. Did not get to get my tests yet.

Can you also try the irqless hotpath?

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