Toward a more efficient slab allocator
Toward a more efficient slab allocator
Posted Jan 15, 2015 14:43 UTC (Thu) by etienne (guest, #25256)Parent article: Toward a more efficient slab allocator
What happened to the free_hot_page()/free_cold_page() and allocating hot (cache-wise) area for use by the processor and cold (cache-wise) to do DMA by another device?
DMA from/to a cold area should be quicker because of reduced memory subsystem traffic, assuming constant TLB cache behaviour...
DMA from/to a cold area should be quicker because of reduced memory subsystem traffic, assuming constant TLB cache behaviour...