linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] slab: introduce the flag SLAB_MINIMIZE

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        dm-devel@...hat.com, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] slab: introduce the flag SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE



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