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Date:      Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:04:48 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory allocation performance
Message-ID:  <86ejbumejj.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <47A55209.9040106@elischer.org> (Julian Elischer's message of "Sat\, 02 Feb 2008 21\:32\:57 -0800")
References:  <47A25412.3010301@FreeBSD.org> <47A25A0D.2080508@elischer.org> <47A2C2A2.5040109@FreeBSD.org> <20080201185435.X88034@fledge.watson.org> <47A43873.40801@FreeBSD.org> <20080202095658.R63379@fledge.watson.org> <47A4E934.1050207@FreeBSD.org> <47A4F1AF.9090306@FreeBSD.org> <20080202224923.T66602@fledge.watson.org> <47A55209.9040106@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > be a good time to try to revalidate that.  Basically, the goal would
> > be to make the pcpu cache FIFO as much as possible as that maximizes
> > the chances that the newly allocated object already has lines in the
> > cache.  It's a fairly trivial tweak to the UMA allocation code.
> you mean FILO or LIFO right?

Uh, no.  You want to reuse the last-freed object, as it is most likely
to still be in cache.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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