From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
akpm@osdl.org, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [SLUB 2/3] Large kmalloc pass through. Removal of large general slabs
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:23:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703071022230.22448@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070307180359.GU23311@waste.org>
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > I have a patch here to make this dependent on page size using a loop. The
> > problem is that it does not work with some versions of gcc. On the
> > other hand we really need this since one arch can
> > actually have an order 22 page size!
>
> You don't need a loop, you need an if (s >= PAGE_SIZE) at the head of
> your static list.
As I just said: PAGE_SIZE may be quite high. So I would need a looong
static list. We already check for the size being bigger than 2048 which is
half the usual page size. Anything larger will get passed through.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-07 2:35 [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-07 2:35 ` [SLUB 1/3] SLUB core Christoph Lameter
2007-03-07 2:35 ` [SLUB 2/3] Large kmalloc pass through. Removal of large general slabs Christoph Lameter
2007-03-07 2:40 ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-07 3:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-07 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-07 15:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-07 18:03 ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-07 18:23 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-03-07 2:35 ` [SLUB 3/3] Guarantee minimum number of objects in a slab Christoph Lameter
2007-03-08 10:54 ` [SLUB 0/3] SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V4 Mel Gorman
2007-03-08 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-08 17:40 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-08 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-09 13:55 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-08 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-09 14:00 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-09 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-09 15:06 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-09 17:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-08 17:46 ` Christoph Lameter
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