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Speeding up the page allocator

Speeding up the page allocator

Posted Feb 27, 2009 18:04 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
Parent article: Speeding up the page allocator

A number of standard user-space benchmarks also show improvements with this patch set.

Strange that the article states this as an afterthought, after giving details about a meaningless measurement: reduction in allocation time as a fraction of the former allocation time. I wonder how much the changes speed up something people care about (such as these standard benchmarks measure).

The improvements mentioned in the article just don't seem like they would make a noticeable improvement.


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