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Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:24:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, 
    Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, 
    Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
    "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, 
    Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, 
    Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, 
    David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>, 
    Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
    linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gthelen@...gle.com, 
    kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 2/2] mm: SLUB Freelist randomization

0.On Wed, 18 May 2016, Thomas Garnier wrote:

> slab_test, before:
> 10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 67 cycles kfree -> 101 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 68 cycles kfree -> 109 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 119 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 88 cycles kfree -> 114 cycles

> After:
> 10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 60 cycles kfree -> 74 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 63 cycles kfree -> 78 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 72 cycles kfree -> 85 cycles
> 10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 91 cycles kfree -> 99 cycles

Erm... The fastpath was not touched and the tests primarily exercise the
fastpath. This is likely some artifact of code placement by the compiler?

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