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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:28:46 -0600 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> 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 Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:21 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:00:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > But kmem_cache_size() would tell you how much extra secret memory there > > is available after the object? > > > > How that gets along with redzoning is a bit of a mystery though. > > > > The whole concept is quite hacky and nasty, isn't it?. Does > > networking/crypto actually show any gain from pulling this stunt? > > I see no point in calling ksize on memory that's not kmalloced. > So no there is nothing to be gained from having kmem_cache_ksize. > > However, for kmalloced memory we're wasting hundreds of bytes > for the standard 1500 byte allocation without ksize which means > that we're doing reallocations (and sometimes copying) when it > isn't necessary. Yeah. That sucks. We should probably stick in an skb-friendly slab size and see what happens on network benchmarks. -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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