Hello, On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:33:59AM +0200, Leonard Crestez wrote: > It seems that free_percpu performance is very bad when working with small > objects. The easiest way to reproduce this is to allocate and then free a large > number of percpu int counters in order. Small objects (reference counters and > pointers) are common users of alloc_percpu and I think this should be fast. > This particular issue can be encountered with very large number of net_device > structs. Do you actually experience this with an actual workload? The thing is allocation has the same quadratic complexity. If this is actually an issue (which can definitely be the case), I'd much prefer implementing a properly scalable area allocator than mucking with the current implementation. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>