Messages in this thread | | | From | Joel Fernandes <> | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:51:56 -0400 | Subject | Re: [RFC] fs: Use slab constructor to initialize conn objects in fsnotify |
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:20 AM Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote: > > There's one improvement (although probably verys small) that the paper mentions: > Also according to the paper you referenced, the instruction cache is > what would also benefit. Those spinlock and hlist initialization > instructions wouldn't cost L1 I-cache footprint for every allocation.
Just to add to my statement: Obviously, this benefit gives diminishing returns in this code path considering that the allocations here are infrequent. But I just mentioned it here for completeness sake.
Thanks,
- Joel
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