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SubjectRe: [PATCH] (repost) kmem_cache_zalloc
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Hi Christoph - 

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 03:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I don't think kmem_cache_zalloc is a good idea. The idea behind the slab
> cache is to allow object reuse by storing constructed objects in the
> caches, and a memset directly after the alloc destroys the object state.
> A kmen_zalloc/kzalloc might make more sense.

The constructor is one part of it, but what about more efficient memory
use? If we let things fall into the default power-of-two caches, we'd
waste quite a lot of memory.

See http://oss.sgi.com/~sandeen/slabinfo.html for example.

On this machine we'd use 30% more memory by using kmem_alloc vs
kmem_cache_alloc.

-Eric

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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc.

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