Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:12:36 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab.c cleanup |
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> - Don't create caches that are not multiples of L1_CACHE_BYTES.
Nice idea, I often see the list walk (of the cache sizes) in kmalloc in kernel profiles. eg a bunch of kmalloc(2k) for network drivers.
Since we have a 128byte cacheline on ppc64 this patch should reduce that.
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