linux-kernel - Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:40:53 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator (try 2)

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:05 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well yes you missed two locations (kmalloc_caches array has to be
> redimensioned) and I also was writing the same patch...
> 
> Here is mine:
> 
> Subject: SLUB: Do not pass 8k objects through to the page allocator
> 
> Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not
> passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k
> objects for performance critical operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>

This is merged now with my fixlets:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8573e12414365585bfd601dc8c093b3efbef8854

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