From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:30:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize In-Reply-To: <1178302904.2767.6.camel@lappy> Message-ID: References: <20070504102651.923946304@chello.nl> <20070504103157.215424767@chello.nl> <1178301545.24217.56.camel@twins> <1178302904.2767.6.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , Thomas Graf , David Miller , James Bottomley , Mike Christie , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips , Pekka Enberg List-ID: On Fri, 4 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Ok so you really need the number of objects per page? If you know the > > number of objects then you can calculate the pages needed which would be > > the maximum memory needed? > > Yes, that would work. Hmmm... Maybe lets have unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *slab_cache, int objects) which would calculate the worst case memory scenario for allocation the number of indicated objects? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org