linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

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Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:52:29 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:28:46PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> Yeah. That sucks. We should probably stick in an skb-friendly slab size
> and see what happens on network benchmarks.

I don't see how that's going to help since we don't want it to
cross page boundaries either (having just wasted a day tracking
down a virtual networking bug because of slab debugging and
crossing page boundaries).

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