Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750702AbWABMeV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:34:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750704AbWABMeV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:34:21 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.55]:7603 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbWABMeU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:34:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:33:48 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Pekka Enberg cc: Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Denis Vlasenko , Andreas Kleen , Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ? In-Reply-To: <84144f020601020051l326e163ep7cba5f2fd240dc0d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <7vbqzadgmt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43A91C57.20102@cosmosbay.com> <200512281032.15460.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200512281054.26703.vda@ilport.com.ua> <3186311.1135792635763.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@imap-dhs.suse.de> <20051228210124.GB1639@waste.org> <20051229012616.GA3286@redhat.com> <1135915609.6039.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <84144f020601020046t3176cde2k7d9ec900cafd6d2f@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020601020051l326e163ep7cba5f2fd240dc0d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Also, wouldn't it be better to track kmem_cache_alloc and > kmem_cache_alloc_node instead? > I believe they are very interested in when kmalloc and kfree are used, since those are the ones for the generic slabs. And even then, they are only profiling the ones that use a dynamic allocation. (the kmalloc and kfree of sizeof(x) is not profiled). This was brought up earlier in the thread. -- Steve - 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/