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SubjectRe: [RFC] Reimplementation of linux dynamic percpu memory allocator
Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
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>>No, not fast path. But it can happen a few thousand times. The slab
>>implementation failed due to heavy internal fragmentation. If your code
>>runs fine with a few thousand users, then there shouldn't be a problem.
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Could you ask Badari Pulavarty (pbadari@us.ibm.com)?
He noticed the fragmentation problem with the original
kmem_cache_alloc_node implementation. Perhaps he could just run your
version with his test setup:
The thread with the fix is at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109735434400002&r=1&w=2

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Manfred
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