On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Docker usage is pretty wide-spread now, making what used to be >> siberia-cold paths hot enough to cause actual scalability issues. >> Besides, we're now using percpu_ref for things like aio and cgroup >> control structures which can be created and destroyed quite >> frequently. I don't think we can say these are "weird" use cases >> anymore. > > Well then lets write a scalable percpu allocator.
percpu allocator maybe be overkill but I think it's worth to make kmem_cache-like thing with pool of objects. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to [email protected]. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"[email protected]"> [email protected] </a> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

