Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759791AbXITRxT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:53:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757919AbXITRxH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:53:07 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:50903 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752042AbXITRxD (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:53:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: "Siddha, Suresh B" cc: Nick Piggin , "Zhang, Yanmin" , Andrew Morton , LKML , mingo@elte.hu, Mel Gorman , Linus Torvalds , Matthew.R.wilcox@intel.com Subject: Re: tbench regression - Why process scheduler has impact on tbench and why small per-cpu slab (SLUB) cache creates the scenario? In-Reply-To: <20070919021705.GB20863@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <1188953218.26438.34.camel@ymzhang> <200709100810.46341.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709110117.57387.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20070913060432.GB6078@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20070914191511.GC6078@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20070919021705.GB20863@linux-os.sc.intel.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: 706 Lines: 17 On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > For now, we are trying to do slab Vs slub comparisons for the mainline kernels. > Let's see how that goes. > > Meanwhile, any chance that you can point us at relevant recent patches/fixes > that are in -mm and perhaps that can be applied to mainline kernel? Those can be found in the performance branch of the slab git tree. See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/christoph/slab.git;a=log;h=performance - 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/