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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: Use correct C11 atomics for fastbin
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:55:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xn359x7i0j.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PAWPR08MB898228A9045509C2E97AD33B83179@PAWPR08MB8982.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com> writes:
> If we want to make tcache actually work, it will have to support far more
> allocations, particularly for smaller sizes.

You can test that with a tunable; the max count per bin is runtime
tunable.

But yeah, the point of tcache is to have a few of many sizes for fast
allocations.  Fastbins has a lot of a few small sizes.  Testing showed
that both were required for best performance with the average
application.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-21 16:09 Wilco Dijkstra
2022-11-21 16:18 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-21 16:55   ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-11-21 16:56     ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-11-21 17:00     ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-02  5:11 ` DJ Delorie
2022-12-02  6:36   ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-02 10:56     ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-12-02 11:24       ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-02 12:02         ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-12-02 18:55           ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2022-12-05 18:39             ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-06 16:19               ` DJ Delorie
2022-12-12  3:35                 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-12 11:57                   ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-12 11:56                 ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-06 13:29             ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-12-06 13:37               ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-12-06 14:31                 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-06 16:23               ` DJ Delorie
2022-12-15 15:43                 ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-12-02 18:55     ` DJ Delorie
2022-12-06 15:04 Wilco Dijkstra

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