Re: [RFC] Simple Slab: A slab allocator with minimal meta information

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:44:51 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you do that then you loose the cache hot advantage. It is advantageous 
> > to initialize the object and then immediately use it. If you initialize it 
> > before then the cacheline will be evicted and then brought back.
> 
> hmm, I don't know precise analization of the perfromance benefit of slab on
> current (Linux + Fast CPU/Bus + Large Cache) systems. I'm grad if you show the
> performance of new "Simple Slab" next time.
> 

BTW, in recent Linux, many objects are freed by call_rcu(hoo, dealyed_free_foo).
Objects are freed far after it was touched.
I think catching this kind of freeing will not boost performance by cache-hit if
reuse freed page (object). 

-Kame

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