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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705041128270.24283@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Ok so you really need the number of objects per page? If you know the
> > number of objects then you can calculate the pages needed which would be
> > the maximum memory needed?
>
> Yes, that would work.
Hmmm... Maybe lets have
unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *slab_cache, int objects)
which would calculate the worst case memory scenario for allocation the
number of indicated objects?
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