svn commit: r269963 - head/sys/kern

[John-Mark Gurney]

Xin LI wrote this message on Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:13 +0000:
> Author: delphij
> Date: Thu Aug 14 05:13:24 2014
> New Revision: 269963
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269963
> 
> Log:
>   Re-instate UMA cached backend for 4K - 64K allocations.  New consumers
>   like geli(4) uses malloc(9) to allocate temporary buffers that gets
>   free'ed shortly, causing frequent TLB shootdown as observed in hwpmc
>   supported flame graph.

Can we do even larger, like 128k for phys io sized blocks?

geli can do allocations >128k, which could be broken into two parts,
one in the <8k sized range and the other in 128k...

Thanks for adding this...

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