Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.1-rc0

[Pekka Enberg]

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > > Christoph, your debugging fix has been in linux-next for few days now
> > > and no problem have been reported. I'm considering sending the series
> > > to Linus. What do you think?
> >
> > I ran slub/lockless through some stress testing and it seems to be quite
> > stable on my testing cluster.  There is about a 2.3% performance
> > improvement with the lockless slowpath on the netperf benchmark with
> > various thread counts on my 16-core 64GB Opterons, so I'd recommend it to
> > be merged into 3.1.

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Great. Could you also test the next stage of patches (not yet even in
> Pekka's tree) where we add a per cpu cache of partial allocated slab
> pages? This decreases the per node lock contention further. I can repost
> the set if the old one does not work for you. Shows significant
> improvement here as well.

They don't apply so please resend them.

			Pekka
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