On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > But we are trading 1 indirect call for comparable overhead removed > from much more common path. The path that does ctors is also calling > into page alloc, which is much more expensive. > So ctor should be a net win on performance front, no? ctor would make it esier to review the flow and guarantee that the object always has certain fields set as required before any use by the subsystem. ctors are run once on allocation of the slab page for all objects in it. ctors are not called duiring allocation and freeing of objects from the slab page. So we could avoid the intialization of the spinlock on each object allocation which actually should be faster. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
