Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751028AbVLTN6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:58:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751038AbVLTN6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:58:09 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:32491 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbVLTN6H (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:58:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:57:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gunter Ohrner , john stultz Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc5-rt2 slowness Message-ID: <20051220135725.GA29392@elte.hu> References: <1134790400.13138.160.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1134860251.13138.193.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051220133230.GC24408@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 30 * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Now, is the solution to bring the SLOB up to par with the SLAB, or to > > > make the SLAB as close to possible to the mainline (why remove NUMA?) > > > and keep it for PREEMPT_RT? > > > > > > Below is the port of the slab changes if anyone else would like to see > > > if this speeds things up for them. > > > > ok, i've added this back in - but we really need a cleaner port of SLAB > > ... > > > > Actually, how much do you want that SLOB code? For the last couple of > days I've been working on different approaches that can speed it up. > Right now I have one that takes advantage of the different caches. > But unfortunately, I'm dealing with a bad pointer some where that > keeps making it bug. Argh! well, the SLOB is mainly about being simple and small. So as long as those speedups are SMP-only, they ought to be fine. The problems are mainly SMP related, correct? Ingo - 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/