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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: Memory allocation performance
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Robert Watson wrote:

> be a good time to try to revalidate that.  Basically, the goal would be 
> to make the pcpu cache FIFO as much as possible as that maximizes the 

you mean FILO or LIFO right?

> chances that the newly allocated object already has lines in the cache.  
> It's a fairly trivial tweak to the UMA allocation code.
> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge