linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

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Date:	Sat, 10 May 2008 15:29:33 +0200
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	"John Reiser" <jreiser@...wagon.com>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Daniel Walker" <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Josh Aune" <luken@...er.org>, "Pekka Paalanen" <pq@....fi>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
> However, memory usage doesn't seem to be much of a problem. I actually
> think it might be worth saving the CPU cycles that are needed for the
> lookups/bit operations (memory is cheap, cycles aren't).

Keep in mind that a reduction in memory usage may reduce the number of
cache misses, and that the improved caching behavior may outweigh the
extra CPU cycles needed for the bit operations.

Bart.
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