Re: [PATCH RESEND] slab: introduce the flag SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 01:01:22PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'd like to ask about this patch - will you commit it, or do you want to 
> > make some more changes to it?
> 
> How about you resend it with the series adding an actual user once
> ready?  I haven't actually seen patches using it posted on any list yet.

dm-bufio is already using it. Starting with the kernel 4.17 (f51f2e0a7fb1 
- "dm bufio: support non-power-of-two block sizes"), dm-bufio has the 
capability to use non-power-of-two buffers. It uses slab cache for its 
buffers - so we would like to have this slab optimization - to avoid 
excessive memory wasting.

Originally, the slub patch used a new flag SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE, but after 
a suggestion from others, I reworked the patch so that it minimizes waste 
of all slub caches and doesn't need an extra flag to activate.

Mikulas