Re: [PATCH,RFC] faster kmalloc lookup

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 03:03:09 EST


Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:

> is there a simpler way to achieve that? Right now the list of kmalloc
> caches exists in 3 copies, which could easily get out of sync.

x86-64 system calls had a similar problem. I solved it by putting
them into a separate file with macros and including it multiple
times with different macro definitions.

It would be quite useful to have it in a separate file: I'm still
toying with the idea to write a memory profiler to compute a better
list of slab sizes than the relatively dumb power of two default. Previously
it was trivial to change the table at boot, now it would be a bit
easier at least if it was a simple file that could be easily
rewritten.

-Andi
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