On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:27 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:17:17 -0700
>
> > But even 1 Million dst cache entries would be 16+4 MB additional for
> > a 4 cpu box....is that too much?
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Per-cpu counters are great for things like single instance
> statistics et al. But once you start doing them per-object
> that's out of control bloat as far as I'm concerned.
This is why my original per-cpu allocator patch was damn slow, and
GFP_KERNEL only. I wasn't convinced that high-churn objects are a good
fit for spreading across cpus.
I thought that net devices and modules (which uses a primitive
hard-coded "bigref" currently) were a fair uses for bigrefs, though I'd
like to see some stats.
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman
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