Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758505AbaLKTOx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:14:53 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38843 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758237AbaLKTOv (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:14:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:11:40 +0100 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linuxfoundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, brouer@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] slub: Fastpath optimization (especially for RT) V1 Message-ID: <20141211191140.1ebb74a6@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20141210163017.092096069@linux.com> <20141211143518.02c781ee@redhat.com> <20141211175058.64a1c2fc@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:18:31 -0600 (CST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > > I was expecting to see at least (specifically) 4.291 ns improvement, as > > this is the measured[1] cost of preempt_{disable,enable] on my system. > > Right. Those calls are taken out of the fastpaths by this patchset for > the CONFIG_PREEMPT case. So the numbers that you got do not make much > sense to me. True, that is also that I'm saying. I'll try to figure out that is going on, tomorrow. You are welcome to run my test harness: http://netoptimizer.blogspot.dk/2014/11/announce-github-repo-prototype-kernel.html https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/getting_started.rst Just load module: time_bench_kmem_cache1 https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/lib/time_bench_kmem_cache1.c -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/