[patch] malloc per-thread cache ready for review

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Thursday 02 February 2017 05:23 PM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> I tried the new malloc (the patch as posted with several fixes from DJ's branch), 
> however I don't see any improvement on SPEC. That's odd since several subtests
> spend ~10% of the time in malloc, and even with a single thread the locking is very
> expensive, so bypassing it should give a good speedup. And yes having written

That is very interesting, I'm going to look at this some more in the
coming weeks.  I had tested an earlier version (around December) but I
didn't think the current one had any major improvements.  Can you share
what kind of machines you ran your tests one?

Siddhesh