Re: [patch] kmalloc_percpu -- 2 of 2

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:11:53PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > Doesn't your allocator increase chances of cache conflict on the same
> > cpu ?
> > 
> 
> You mean by increasing the footprint and the chance of eviction ? It
> is a compromise. Or you would face NR_CPUS bloat and non-NUMA-node-local 
> accesses for all CPUs outside the NUMA node where your NR_CPUS array
> is located.

What do you base the trade-off decision on?

> 
> Thanks
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> Dipankar Sarma  <[e-mail]> http://lse.sourceforge.net
> Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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