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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:18:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: slab: introduce the flag SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE
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To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> > Please clarify further, thanks!
> > Mike
>
> Yes, using a slab cache currently doesn't avoid this rouding (it needs the
> SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE patch to do that).

Or an increase in slab_max_order