netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: do not cache align timewait sockets

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Date:	Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: do not cache align timewait sockets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:07:18 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> With recent adoption of skc_cookie in struct sock_common,
> struct tcp_timewait_sock size increased from 192 to 200 bytes
> on 64bit arches. SLAB rounds then to 256 bytes.
> 
> It is time to drop SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN constraint for twsk_slab.
> 
> This saves about 12 MB of memory on typical configuration reaching
> 262144 timewait sockets, and has no noticeable impact on performance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Looks reasonable, applied, thanks.
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