linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabs

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Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:53:42 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, akpm@...l.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel <Ext2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabs

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:08:15PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is the fix to "bh: Ensure bh fits within a page" problem
> caused by JBD.
> 
> BTW, I realized that this problem can happen only with 1k, 2k
> filesystems - as 4k, 8k allocations disable slab debug 
> automatically. But for completeness, I created slabs for those
> also.
> 
> What do you think ? I ran basic tests and things are fine.

Why can't you just use alloc_page?  I bet the whole slab overhead
eats more memory than what's wasted when using alloc_pages.  Especially
as the typical usecase is a 4k blocks filesystem with 4k pagesize
where the overhead of alloc_page is non-existant.
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