linux-kernel - RE: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:57:00 -0800
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Cc:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>, <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: RE: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

> > Ahh so the need to be able to expand per cpu memory storage on demand 
> > is not as critical as we thought.
> > 
>
> Yes, but still desirable for future optimizations.
>
> For example, I do think using a per cpu memory storage on net_device refcnt & 
> last_rx could give us some speedups.

We do want to keep a very tight handle on bloat in per-cpu
allocations.  By definition the total allocation is multiplied
by the number of cpus.  Only ia64 has outrageous numbers of
cpus in a single system image today ... but the trend in
multi-core chips looks to have a Moore's law arc to it, so
everyone is going to be looking at lots of cpus before long.

-Tony
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