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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: REN2 [07/13] Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:36:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013ca6b54403-b790cbb7-3b4f-465e-a95e-6c9e708bacd3-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALF0-+VGnhL0B5nuqJUYCEzKRxzzxJAWzT2x1SumVRmVapdLRg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> I mean: why do we need to maintain 32 bytes as the smallest kmalloc cache?

SLABs metadata structures do not allow smaller caches.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130110190027.780479755@linux.com>
2013-01-10 19:00 ` REN2 [01/13] slab_common: Use proper formatting specs for unsigned size_t Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:00 ` REN2 [02/13] Move kmalloc related function defs Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:12 ` REN2 [05/13] slab: Common name for the per node structures Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:12 ` REN2 [08/13] Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:12 ` REN2 [09/13] Common function to create the kmalloc array Christoph Lameter
2013-01-11  7:23   ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-01-14 14:46     ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1301140843010.27095@gentwo.org>
2013-01-14 19:50       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [10/13] stat: Use size_t for sizes instead of unsigned Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [04/13] slab: Use common kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size functions Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [11/13] Common Kmalloc cache determination Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [03/13] Common kmalloc slab index determination Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [13/13] Common definition for kmem_cache_node Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [12/13] slab: Rename list3/l3 to node Christoph Lameter
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [07/13] Common constants for kmalloc boundaries Christoph Lameter
2013-02-02 18:00   ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-02-04 19:36     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-01-10 19:14 ` REN2 [06/13] slab: rename nodelists to node Christoph Lameter

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