On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:42 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:30, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > This patch adds a per task-struct cache of a free vma.
> >
> > In normal operation, it is a really common action during userspace mmap
> > or malloc to first allocate a vma, and then find out that it can be merged,
> > and thus free it again. In fact this is the case roughly 95% of the time.
> >
> > In addition, this patch allows code to "prepopulate" the cache, and
> > this is done as example for the x86_64 mmap codepath. The advantage of this
> > prepopulation is that the memory allocation (which is a sleeping operation
> > due to the GFP_KERNEL flag, potentially causing either a direct sleep or a
> > voluntary preempt sleep) will happen before the mmap_sem is taken, and thus
> > reduces lock hold time (and thus the contention potential)
>
> The slab fast path doesn't sleep.
it does via might_sleep()
> Numbers numbers numbers. What workload? How much did it help?
see post 0/3
3% on a threaded allocation benchmark (which resembles a webserver with
cgis apparently)
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