Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751111AbVLUQlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:41:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbVLUQlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:41:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50086 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbVLUQlN (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:41:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:40:26 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Folkert van Heusden Cc: Eric Dumazet , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ? Message-ID: <20051221164024.GB3459@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Folkert van Heusden , Eric Dumazet , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen References: <7vbqzadgmt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43A91C57.20102@cosmosbay.com> <200512210744.52559.edt@aei.ca> <20051221132046.GJ27831@vanheusden.com> <43A95ABF.1030309@cosmosbay.com> <20051221140901.GM27831@vanheusden.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221140901.GM27831@vanheusden.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 20 On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > Your results are interesting : size-32 seems to use objects of size 64 ! > > > size-32 1538 2714 64 <> > > So I guess that size-32 cache could be avoided at least for EMT (I take you > > run a 64 bits kernel ?) > > I think I do yes: > Linux xxxxx 2.4.21-37.EL #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:32:18 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > It is a redhat 4 x64 system. Looks more like RHEL3 judging from the kernel version. Dave - 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/