Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] slab: overload struct slab over struct pageto reduce memory usage

[Pekka Enberg]

On 10/16/13 10:34 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:43:57 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There is two main topics in this patchset. One is to reduce memory usage
> > and the other is to change a management method of free objects of a slab.
> >
> > The SLAB allocate a struct slab for each slab. The size of this structure
> > except bufctl array is 40 bytes on 64 bits machine. We can reduce memory
> > waste and cache footprint if we overload struct slab over struct page.
> Seems a good idea from a quick look.

Indeed.

Christoph, I'd like to pick this up and queue for linux-next. Any
objections or comments to the patches?

                    Pekka
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