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Message-ID: <20220706141839.469986f5@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 14:18:39 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: add a description for
 net.core.high_order_alloc_disable

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 15:24:58 +0200 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> linux-5.14 allowed high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists.
> 
> I ran again the benchmark cited in commit ce27ec60648d to confirm that
> the slowdown we had before 5.14 for
> high number of alloc/frees per second is no more.

Sounds useful to know - Antoine, do you reckon we can include a mention
of this knob being mostly of historical importance?

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