Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:46:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: slab-alignment-rework.patch in -mc |
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Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote: > > There is one additional point: right now slab uses ints for the bufctls. > Using short would save two bytes for each object. Initially I had used > short, but davem objected. IIRC because some archs do not handle short > effeciently. Should I allow arch overrides for the bufctls? On i386, > saving two bytes might allow a few additional anon_vma objects in each > page.
There's one bufctl per object, yes?
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