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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()
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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:21 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:00:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > But kmem_cache_size() would tell you how much extra secret memory there
> > is available after the object?
> >
> > How that gets along with redzoning is a bit of a mystery though.
> >
> > The whole concept is quite hacky and nasty, isn't it?. Does
> > networking/crypto actually show any gain from pulling this stunt?
>
> I see no point in calling ksize on memory that's not kmalloced.
> So no there is nothing to be gained from having kmem_cache_ksize.
>
> However, for kmalloced memory we're wasting hundreds of bytes
> for the standard 1500 byte allocation without ksize which means
> that we're doing reallocations (and sometimes copying) when it
> isn't necessary.

Yeah. That sucks. We should probably stick in an skb-friendly slab size
and see what happens on network benchmarks.

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