Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 2004 19:07:35 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slabify iocontext + request_queue |
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this just went in:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> > > Move both request_queue and io_context allocation to a slab cache. > > This is mainly a space-saving exercise. Some setups have a lot of disks > and the kmalloc rounding-up can consume significant amounts of memory.
While I agree on the io_context part, slabifying request_queue is a space waste on most machines out there. The averange desktop has less than a handfull of these, and even for smaller servers it doesn't exactly look like a gain. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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