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.
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test * cmpxchg_local slub kmalloc(8) = 63 cycles kfree = 126 cycles kmalloc(16) = 66 cycles kfree = 129 cycles kmalloc(32) = 76 cycles kfree = 138 cycles kmalloc(64) = 100 cycles kfree = 288 cycles kmalloc(128) = 128 cycles kfree = 309 cycles kmalloc(256) = 170 cycles kfree = 315 cycles kmalloc(512) = 221 cycles kfree = 357 cycles kmalloc(1024) = 324 cycles kfree = 393 cycles kmalloc(2048) = 354 cycles kfree = 440 cycles kmalloc(4096) = 394 cycles kfree = 330 cycles kmalloc(8192) = 523 cycles kfree = 481 cycles kmalloc(16384) = 643 cycles kfree = 649 cycles * Base kmalloc(8) = 74 cycles kfree = 113 cycles kmalloc(16) = 76 cycles kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(32) = 85 cycles kfree = 133 cycles kmalloc(64) = 111 cycles kfree = 279 cycles kmalloc(128) = 138 cycles kfree = 294 cycles kmalloc(256) = 181 cycles kfree = 304 cycles kmalloc(512) = 237 cycles kfree = 327 cycles kmalloc(1024) = 340 cycles kfree = 379 cycles kmalloc(2048) = 378 cycles kfree = 433 cycles kmalloc(4096) = 399 cycles kfree = 329 cycles kmalloc(8192) = 528 cycles kfree = 624 cycles kmalloc(16384) = 651 cycles kfree = 737 cycles 2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test * cmpxchg_local slub kmalloc(8)/kfree = 96 cycles kmalloc(16)/kfree = 97 cycles kmalloc(32)/kfree = 97 cycles kmalloc(64)/kfree = 97 cycles kmalloc(128)/kfree = 97 cycles kmalloc(256)/kfree = 105 cycles kmalloc(512)/kfree = 108 cycles kmalloc(1024)/kfree = 105 cycles kmalloc(2048)/kfree = 107 cycles kmalloc(4096)/kfree = 390 cycles kmalloc(8192)/kfree = 626 cycles kmalloc(16384)/kfree = 662 cycles * Base kmalloc(8)/kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(16)/kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(32)/kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(64)/kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(128)/kfree = 116 cycles kmalloc(256)/kfree = 126 cycles kmalloc(512)/kfree = 126 cycles kmalloc(1024)/kfree = 126 cycles kmalloc(2048)/kfree = 126 cycles kmalloc(4096)/kfree = 384 cycles kmalloc(8192)/kfree = 749 cycles kmalloc(16384)/kfree = 786 cycles Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - 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/
