Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:40:44 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [SLUB 2/3] Large kmalloc pass through. Removal of large general slabs |
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:35:16PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Unlimited kmalloc size and removal of general caches >=4. > > We can directly use the page allocator for all allocations 4K and larger. This > means that no general slabs are necessary and the size of the allocation passed > to kmalloc() can be arbitrarily large. Remove the useless general caches over 4k.
I've been meaning to do this in SLOB as well. Perhaps it warrants doing in stock kmalloc? I've got a grand total of 18 of these objects here.
The downside is this makes them suddenly disappear off the slabinfo radar.
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