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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] acpi: do not use kmem caches
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:09:33 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812011207400.16919@quilx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493420B2.8050907@gmail.com>

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> > Though I suspect this situation could be improved by avoiding those
> > fairly big unions ACPI does (like union acpi_operand_object).
> >
> No, last time I checked, operand may get down to 16 bytes in 32-bit case --
> save byte by having 3 types of operands... and making 2 more caches :)

SLAB has a minimum allocation size of 32 bytes so it would not make a
difference there.

SLUB can go down to 8 bytes which would enable you to save more. Adding
new caches most of the time simply lead to incrementing a counter in
a similar kmem_cache structure.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01  8:31 Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 11:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 12:00   ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 13:12     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 13:36       ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 14:14         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 16:32           ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 17:18           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-01 17:32             ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 13:37       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 14:02         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 16:14           ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 16:45             ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 16:58               ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 17:20               ` Moore, Robert
2008-12-01 17:30                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-01 17:32                   ` Moore, Robert
2008-12-01 17:20               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-01 17:49                 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 17:53                 ` Len Brown
2008-12-01 18:10                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-31 22:04                     ` Len Brown
2009-01-05  4:14                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-05  5:43                         ` Skywing
2009-01-05  6:55                           ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 14:32         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-01 14:48           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 16:20             ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 17:04               ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 17:12                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 17:25                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 17:32                     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 17:36                       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 17:48                         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 18:09                         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-12-01 17:43                   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-01 17:31 ` Len Brown

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