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re: extent-patch and overview of what is supposed to follow



> :-) The trouble is large parts of the kernel are migrated to kmem
> already and having too interfaces and two allocators is something that
> needs cleanup. The malloc-type statistics would need a major overhaul
> if they are the way to go, what I doubt, as the essentially make
> malloc single threaded even if it is backed by kmem caches with
> cpu-local caches.

we can have per-cpu caches of values and the grovellers can total up.


.mrg.


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