Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ?

[Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>]

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> >size-131072            0      0 131072
> >size-65536             0      0  65536
> >size-32768            20     20  32768
> >size-16384             8      9  16384
> >size-8192             37     38   8192
> >size-4096            269    269   4096
> >size-2048            793    910   2048
> >size-1024            564    608   1024
> >size-512             702    856    512
> >size-256            1485   4005    256
> >size-128            1209   1350    128
> >size-64             2858   3363     64
> >size-32             1538   2714     64
> >Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 3.00GHz
> >address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> 
> Your results are interesting : size-32 seems to use objects of size 64 !
> > size-32             1538   2714     64 <<HERE>>
> So I guess that size-32 cache could be avoided at least for EMT (I take you 
> run a 64 bits kernel ?)

I think I do yes:
Linux xxxxx 2.4.21-37.EL #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:32:18 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
It is a redhat 4 x64 system.
Also from /proc/cpuinfo:
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual


Folkert van Heusden

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