netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] slub: initial bulk free implementation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:21:10 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] slub: initial bulk free implementation


On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:28:06 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> wrote:

> Is this really better than just calling __kmem_cache_free_bulk()?

Yes, as can be seen by cover-letter, but my cover-letter does not seem
to have reached mm-list.

Measurements for the entire patchset:

Bulk - Fallback bulking           - fastpath-bulking
   1 -  47 cycles(tsc) 11.921 ns  -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.461 ns   improved  4.3%
   2 -  46 cycles(tsc) 11.649 ns  -  28 cycles(tsc)  7.023 ns   improved 39.1%
   3 -  46 cycles(tsc) 11.550 ns  -  22 cycles(tsc)  5.671 ns   improved 52.2%
   4 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.398 ns  -  19 cycles(tsc)  4.967 ns   improved 57.8%
   8 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.303 ns  -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.298 ns   improved 62.2%
  16 -  44 cycles(tsc) 11.221 ns  -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.423 ns   improved 61.4%
  30 -  75 cycles(tsc) 18.894 ns  -  57 cycles(tsc) 14.497 ns   improved 24.0%
  32 -  73 cycles(tsc) 18.491 ns  -  56 cycles(tsc) 14.227 ns   improved 23.3%
  34 -  75 cycles(tsc) 18.962 ns  -  58 cycles(tsc) 14.638 ns   improved 22.7%
  48 -  80 cycles(tsc) 20.049 ns  -  64 cycles(tsc) 16.247 ns   improved 20.0%
  64 -  87 cycles(tsc) 21.929 ns  -  74 cycles(tsc) 18.598 ns   improved 14.9%
 128 -  98 cycles(tsc) 24.511 ns  -  89 cycles(tsc) 22.295 ns   improved  9.2%
 158 - 101 cycles(tsc) 25.389 ns  -  93 cycles(tsc) 23.390 ns   improved  7.9%
 250 - 104 cycles(tsc) 26.170 ns  - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.112 ns   improved  3.8%

I'll do a compare against the previous patch, and post the results.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html