Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:20:04 +0200 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] slab: overload struct slab over struct page to reduce memory usage |
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On 10/16/13 10:34 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:43:57 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote: > >> There is two main topics in this patchset. One is to reduce memory usage >> and the other is to change a management method of free objects of a slab. >> >> The SLAB allocate a struct slab for each slab. The size of this structure >> except bufctl array is 40 bytes on 64 bits machine. We can reduce memory >> waste and cache footprint if we overload struct slab over struct page. > Seems a good idea from a quick look.
Indeed.
Christoph, I'd like to pick this up and queue for linux-next. Any objections or comments to the patches?
Pekka
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