On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:33:05PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:15:42PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> > > This patchset implements byte sized indexes for the freelist of a slab.
> > >
> > > Currently, the freelist of a slab consist of unsigned int sized indexes.
> > > Most of slabs have less number of objects than 256, so much space is
> > > wasted.
> > > To reduce this overhead, this patchset implements byte sized indexes for
> > > the freelist of a slab. With it, we can save 3 bytes for each objects.
> > >
> > > This introduce one likely branch to functions used for setting/getting
> > > objects to/from the freelist, but we may get more benefits from
> > > this change.
> > >
> > > Below is some numbers of 'cat /proc/slabinfo' related to my previous
> > > posting
> > > and this patchset.
> >
> > You may also want to run some performance tests. The cache footprint
> > should also be reduced with this patchset and therefore performance should
> > be better.
>
> Yes, I did a hackbench test today, but I'm not ready for posting it.
> The performance is improved for my previous posting and futher improvement is
> founded by this patchset. Perhaps I will post it tomorrow.
>
Here are the results from both patchsets on my 4 cpus machine.
* Before *
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10
runs):
238,309,671 cache-misses
( +- 0.40% )
12.010172090 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.21% )
* After my previous posting *
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10
runs):
229,945,138 cache-misses
( +- 0.23% )
11.627897174 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.14% )
* After my previous posting + this patchset *
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10
runs):
218,640,472 cache-misses
( +- 0.42% )
11.504999837 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.21% )
cache-misses are reduced whenever applying each patchset, roughly 5%
respectively.
And elapsed times are also improved by 3.1% and 4.2% to baseline, respectively.
I think that all patchsets deserve to be merged, since it reduces memory usage
and
also improves performance. :)
Thanks.
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