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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom•com>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom•com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst•de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation•org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs•helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net:  allocate skbs on local node
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:58:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101012005856.994bea6d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286869793.2732.24.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:49:53 +0200 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com> wrote:

> Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 00:24 -0700, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> 
> > I'd love to forget it, but it's faster for some things (I forget
> > which).  Which is why it's still around.
> 
> Yes, two years ago it was true on pathological/obscure cases.
> Every time I did the comparison, SLUB won.
> You asked me, I did yet another test this morning, and 40% is pretty
> serious, I believe.
> 
> > 
> > And the ghastly thing about this is that you're forced to care about it
> > too because some people are, apparently, still using it.
> > 
> 
> Yes, some people (in my company) still use linux 2.6.9 32bit on HP G6/G7
> machines, I know...
> 
> I am not saying we should not care, but for any serious network workload
> on NUMA arches, SLUB is the best, and seeing Christoph recent work, it
> might even get better.
> 
> BTW, I believe all modern distros ship SLUB, dont they ?
> 

Dunno.

Pekka, why haven't we deleted slab yet??

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 23:03 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: dont use netdev_alloc_skb() Eric Dumazet
2010-10-11 23:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  5:03   ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  5:16     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  9:12       ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-14 17:39         ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17           ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-10-14 18:20             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-14 18:25               ` David Miller
2010-10-14 18:17           ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  5:05   ` [PATCH net-next] net: allocate skbs on local node Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  5:35     ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-12  6:03     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12  6:58       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  7:24         ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-12  7:49           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12  7:58             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-12 11:08               ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-12 12:50                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-12 19:43                   ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13  6:17                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13  6:31                       ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13  6:36                         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-13 16:00                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 20:48                       ` David Rientjes
2010-10-13 21:43                         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-13 22:41                           ` David Rientjes
2010-10-14  6:22                             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-14  7:23                               ` David Rientjes
2010-10-15 14:23                             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 15:31       ` Tom Herbert
2010-10-14 16:05         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-15 16:57           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-14 19:27         ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 19:59           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 18:54     ` David Miller
2010-10-12 16:07 ` [BUG net-next] bnx2x: all traffic comes to RX queue 0 Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 16:20   ` Dmitry Kravkov
2010-10-12 18:11     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-12 18:18       ` Vladislav Zolotarov

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