From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] patch-slab-split-03-tail
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:15:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9DE8E1.6030105@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D9DE69C.C6E88C9F@digeo.com
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Makes sense. It would be nice to get this confirmed in
> targetted testing ;)
>
Not yet done.
The right way to test it would be to collect data in kernel about
alloc/free, and then run that data against both versions, and check
which version gives less internal fragmentation.
Or perhaps Bonwick has done that for his slab paper, but I don't have it :-(
* An implementation of the Slab Allocator as described in outline in;
* UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia
* Pub: Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-101908-2
* or with a little more detail in;
* The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
* Jeff Bonwick (Sun Microsystems).
* Presented at: USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-04 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 17:04 [PATCH] patch-slab-split-03-tail Manfred Spraul
2002-10-04 19:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-04 19:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-04 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-04 19:15 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-10-04 20:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-04 21:25 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-10-04 21:43 ` Robert Love
2002-10-04 22:30 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-10-05 0:14 ` Anton Blanchard
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