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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701190952090.14617@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:54:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Cache misses for small packet flow due to the fact, that the same data
> > is allocated and freed and accessed on different CPUs will become an
> > issue soon, not right now, since two-four core CPUs are not yet to be
> > very popular and price for the cache miss is not _that_ high.
>
> SGI does networking too, right?
Sslab deals with those issues the right way. We have per processor
queues that attempt to keep the cache hot state. A special shared queue
exists between neighboring processors to facilitate exchange of objects
between then.
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