Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2007 06:10:16 +0200 | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | | Subject | Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?! |
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Christoph Lameter a écrit : > On Sat, 19 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> However, there are numerous optimizations and features made possible >> with flag bits, which might as could be made cheap by padding struct >> page up to the next highest power of 2 bytes with space for flag bits. > > Well the last time I tried to get this by Andi we became a bit concerned > when we realized that the memory map would grow by 14% in size. Given > that 4k page size challenged platforms have a huge amount of page structs > that growth is significant. I think it would be fine to do it for IA64 > with 16k page size but not for x86_64.
This reminds me Andi attempted in the past to convert 'flags' to a 32 bits field :
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=107903527523739&w=2
I wonder why this idea was not taken, saving 2MB per GB of memory is nice :)
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