Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:46:01 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm, slab: shorten kmalloc cache names for large sizes |
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:36:20PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Kmalloc cache names can get quite long for large object sizes, when the sizes > are expressed in bytes. Use 'k' and 'M' prefixes to make the names as short > as possible e.g. in /proc/slabinfo. This works, as we mostly use power-of-two > sizes, with exceptions only below 1k. > > Example: 'kmalloc-4194304' becomes 'kmalloc-4M' > > Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
There is a slight chance this will break any external tooling that calculates fragmentation stats for slab/slub if they are particularly stupid parsers but other than that;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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