On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:45:33AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Measurements on a AMD64 2.0 GHz dual-core > > In this test, we seem to remove 10 cycles from the kmalloc fast path. > On small allocations, it gives a 14% performance increase. kfree fast > path also seems to have a 10 cycles improvement.
Looks good. Anything that makes kmalloc faster is good -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
