Re: [PATCH] Move memory controller allocations to their own slabs

[Balbir Singh]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:01:49 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Move the memory controller data structures page_cgroup and
>> mem_cgroup_per_zone to their own slab caches. It saves space on the system,
>> allocations are not necessarily pushed to order of 2 and should provide
>> performance benefits.
> 
> eh?  Those structures are tiny.  Which slab allocator has gone and used an
> order-2 allocation and for which structure did it (stupidly) do this?
> 
> 

When I say order of 2, I meant with kmalloc. They are rounded of to 64, 128 byte
boundary. I wanted to pack these objects more closely.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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