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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:56:11PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Nobody gets a cpu number just to get a cpu number - it's not a useful
> > thing to benchmark. What does getcpu() so much that we care?
> 
> malloc is the primary target I believe. Saves lots of memory to keep
> caches per CPU rather than per thread.

Agreed, a competent default malloc() in glibc would be a very nice change
from the current state.

							Thanx, Paul