On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > This patchset implements byte sized indexes for the freelist of a slab. > > Currently, the freelist of a slab consist of unsigned int sized indexes. > Most of slabs have less number of objects than 256, so much space is wasted. > To reduce this overhead, this patchset implements byte sized indexes for > the freelist of a slab. With it, we can save 3 bytes for each objects. > > This introduce one likely branch to functions used for setting/getting > objects to/from the freelist, but we may get more benefits from > this change. > > Below is some numbers of 'cat /proc/slabinfo' related to my previous posting > and this patchset.
You may also want to run some performance tests. The cache footprint should also be reduced with this patchset and therefore performance should be better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
