From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 9 11:16:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34ABE37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C606E43F75 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B942A8B4; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Jake Burkholder , Jeff Roberson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel allocation API In-Reply-To: <25686.1044779463@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 11:16:29 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030209191629.88B942A8B4@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > In message <20030209075706.GO88781@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > >I may see if I can convert some paths in the kernel to use zones. :) > > I have a number of places where zones can be used instead of malloc, > but since none of the places I have tried previously have resulted > in measurable performance differences it has not been high on my > agenda. I'd be interested to know what it did to KVA usage on i386. I would expect to find a more efficient KVA utilization (and memory utilization) due to better packing of objects instead of the power-of-two roundup that malloc does. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message