On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:35:16PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Unlimited kmalloc size and removal of general caches >=4. > > We can directly use the page allocator for all allocations 4K and larger. This > means that no general slabs are necessary and the size of the allocation > passed > to kmalloc() can be arbitrarily large. Remove the useless general caches over > 4k.
I've been meaning to do this in SLOB as well. Perhaps it warrants doing in stock kmalloc? I've got a grand total of 18 of these objects here. The downside is this makes them suddenly disappear off the slabinfo radar. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
