From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 23 23:40:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A274B37B402; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (bmilekic@localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.2/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1O7eCh4035568; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:40:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.2/8.12.1/Submit) id g1O7eBJb035566; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:40:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmilekic) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:40:11 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.) Message-ID: <20020224024011.A35319@unixdaemons.com> References: <XFMail.020114020307.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200201241022.g0OAMISM093913@faber.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20020124024534.V13686@elvis.mu.org> <200202131739.g1DHdZT5023794@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202190945.g1J9j9kg076110@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202232051.g1NKpE741310@apollo.backplane.com> <20020223211449.GJ80761@elvis.mu.org> <200202232243.g1NMhZP49110@apollo.backplane.com> <3C78200E.EC89C4E1@mindspring.com> <200202232312.g1NNCaH54765@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200202232312.g1NNCaH54765@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:12:36PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-current.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-current> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-current> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:12:36PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :OTOH, A per CPU bucket list means no bucket mtx would be necessary; > :without that, it's just replacing one type of contention for another, > :I think, until you start making mutex selection indeterminate. 8^(. > : > :Really, this delayed freeing idea is starting to get uglier than > :just going to per CPU pools... > : > :-- Terry > > Well, if we want to rewrite malloc() a per-cpu pool inside a critical > section would not be that difficult. The 'bucket' array would > simply be placed in the per-cpu area. However, with malloc() we still > have a serious problem with the malloc_type structure statistics. There > would have to be per-cpu information for those as well. Someone (jeffr) is already working on a new allocator to hopefully [at least] eventually replace malloc(9) and various other kernel allocators. It will support per CPU working-sets and some cache friendly goodies. -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message