On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Therefore, in the test where we have separate passes for slub allocation > and free, we hit mostly the slow path. Any particular reason for that ?
Maybe on SMP you are schedule to run on a different processor? Note that I ran my tests at early boot where such effects do not occur. > Note that the alloc/free test (test 2) seems to hit the fast path as > expected. It is much more likely in that case that the execution thread stays on one processor. - 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/
