linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator

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Message-ID: <00000142c4192155-e27322df-ba1a-4af8-98c3-f2b15dd70d13-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:50:50 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the
 allocator

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> I could try. But my trial would not figure this out, since my machine has
> just 4 cores which normally cannot produce heavy contention.

I think that is fine for starters. Once we know what to look for we can
find machines to test specific scenarios.

> Anyway, could you tell me where I can find your synthetic benchmarks for slab?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/13/459
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