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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:25:07 +0400
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2] percpu: Add a separate function to merge free areas
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> Docker usage is pretty wide-spread now, making what used to be
>> siberia-cold paths hot enough to cause actual scalability issues.
>> Besides, we're now using percpu_ref for things like aio and cgroup
>> control structures which can be created and destroyed quite
>> frequently.  I don't think we can say these are "weird" use cases
>> anymore.
>
> Well then lets write a scalable percpu allocator.

percpu allocator maybe be overkill but I think it's worth to make
kmem_cache-like thing with pool of objects.

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